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Dharam Pal & Ors vs State Of Haryana & Anr on 18 July, 2013

Another situation incidental to the issue discussed above may arise when all the persons accused in a case triable by the court of sessions are exonerated by the police and are not sent up for trial. The question which obviously would crop up to what course would be left for the Magistrate to take up. One by taking recourse of the ratio laid down in the case Dharam Pal vs. State of Haryana (supra) may put his point that the Magistrate would be handicapped to take cognizance of the offence as the accused persons have not been sent up for trial. That approach in any view never gets sanction of law when the provision as contained in Section 190(1)(b) of the Code empowers a Magistrate to take cognizance of the offence though Hon'ble Court in the case referred to above has been pleased to hold that the Magistrate does not have power to take cognizance of the offence against the persons not sent up for trial but that proposition has been laid down on the premise that the cognizance is taken of the offence and not against the offender and therefore, once the cognizance is taken, question of taking cognizance of the same offence does not arise and therefore, their Lordships have been pleased to observe that it is either for the Magistrate or to the court of session to take cognizance of the offence. But in a case where all the persons who were the accused are not sent up for trial the Magistrate would not be in a position to take recourse of the provision of Section 209 of the Code for committal of the case to the court of session and thereby it would be travesty of justice that even if materials are there against the accused person they may not be put to trial. This approach if adopted it would be against scheme of the Code wherein the provision as contained in Section 190(1)
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