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SKODA AUTO VOLKSWAGEN INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ORS.

SCR Citation: [2020] 11 S.C.R. 786
Year/Volume: 2020/ Volume 11
Date of Judgment: 26 November 2020
Petitioner: SKODA AUTO VOLKSWAGEN INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Disposal Nature: Petition Dismissed
Neutral Citation: 2020 INSC 661
Judgment Delivered by: Hon'ble Mr. Justice V. Ramasubramanian
Respondent: THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ORS.
Case Type: SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) /4931/2020
Order/Judgment: Judgment
1. Headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973:s. 482 – Petition under – Seeking quashing of FIR registeredu/s. 34, 471, 468, 467, 420, 419 and 406 IPC against a companyengaged in manufacture, import and sale of passenger vehicles –High Court rejected prayer for quashing the FIR – Special LeavePetition – Plea that police cannot investigate an issue, the substratumof which is subjudice before Supreme Court against order passed byNational Green Tribunal (NGT) and that there was long delay inlodging the complaint – Held: If perusal of FIR leads to disclosureof an offence even broadly, law courts are barred from usurpingjurisdiction of police – The order of NGT (appeal against which ispending before Supreme Court) passed on the applications whichwere broad and general, cannot be taken as an impediment to lodgea complaint, for an individual purchaser of car – Substratum ofpolice complaint cannot be said to be subjudice before Supreme Court– Interference with impugned order not called for.

2. Case referred
3. Act
  • Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)
4. Keyword
  • Code of Criminal Procedure
  • 1973: s. 482 – Petition under – Seeking quashing of FIR registered u/s. 34
  • 471
  • 468
  • 467
  • 420
  • 419 and 406 IPC against a company engaged in manufacture
  • import and sale of passenger vehicles
5. Equivalent citation
    Citation(s) 2021 AIR 931 = 2021 (5) SCC 795 = 2021 (5) Suppl. SCC 795 = 2020 (13) SCALE 343