{"id":207482,"date":"2019-01-02T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=207482"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T06:49:26","slug":"solemn-duty-of-court-to-protect-life-and-liberty-of-citizens-judicial-magistrate-cautioned-for-issuing-warrant-without-perusing-chargesheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/01\/02\/solemn-duty-of-court-to-protect-life-and-liberty-of-citizens-judicial-magistrate-cautioned-for-issuing-warrant-without-perusing-chargesheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemn duty of Court to protect life and liberty of citizens; Judicial Magistrate cautioned for issuing warrant without perusing chargesheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tripura High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Bench of Arindam Lodh, J. allowed a petition for quashing of criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner was arrested with other co-accused in connection with a crime under Sections 364-A, 302 and 201 IPC along with Section 27 of Arms Act. The petitioner through his counsel D. Bhattacharya, Advocate submitted that after investigation, the chargesheet submitted by the Investigating officer did not show his name. Further, that the IO specifically observed that there was no evidence against the petitioner. However, after taking cognizance of the case, the Judicial Magistrate (First class), Sonamura issued an arrest warrant against all the accused including the petitioner. Aggrieved thereby, the present petition was filed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After carefully perusing the record, the High Court expressed serious dissatisfaction to the conduct of JMFC who did not think it necessary to go through the chargesheet itself. This, according to the court, is unexpected from a Judicial Officer. The JMFC was cautioned that any such mistake in future would draw appropriate action. It was observed, &#8220;<strong>It is the solemn duty of the court to protect the life and\u00a0liberty of a citizen and none should be harassed\u00a0<\/strong><b>unnecessarily&#8221;.\u00a0<\/b>The Court was satisfied that the petitioner was discharged by the IO and therefore it allowed the petition by quashing the proceedings pending against the petitioner. [Priyalal Debbarma v. State of Tripura, <a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/9kddQs4S\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine Tri 261<\/b><\/a>, Order dated 05-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripura High Court:\u00a0A Bench of Arindam Lodh, J. allowed a petition for quashing of criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner. 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