Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Assistant Engineer Theft of electricity |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Dismissed |
Headnote | ELECTRICITY ACT, 2003: s. 151 r/w ss.135/126 of the Act and r.12 of Electricity Rules, 2005 — Theft of electricity - Officers authorized to file complaint - Cognizance of offences — Plea that Assistant Engineer had no authority to make a written complaint — Held: Amendment to s.151 is clarificatory in nature — Further, notwithstanding the provisions of s. 151 of the Act, an FIR could be filed with the police — Even when a Magistrate is to take cognizance on a complaint filed before him, that would not mean that no other avenue is opened and complaint/FIR cannot be lodged with the police —- Offences under Electricity Act are also to be tried by applying the procedure contained in the Code — it cannot be said that a complete machinery is provided under Electricity Act as to how such offences are to be dealt with — If the offence under the Code is cognizable, provisions of Chapter XII containing s.154 Cr.P.C. and onward would become applicable and it would be the duty of police to register FIR and investigate into the same — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — ss.4, 154 and 172. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri |
Neutral Citation | 2014 INSC 64 |
Petitioner | Vishal Agrawal & Anr. |
Respondent | Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board & Anr. |
SCR | [2014] 1 S.C.R. 857 |
Judgement Date | 2014-01-29 |
Case Number | 275 |
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