P&H: Once challan has already been filed direction to investigating agency to consider the documents again was not possible at that stage
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has partly allowed a petition filed by Gagandeep Jindal in a case arising out of an FIR alleging misappropriation of paddy stocks by a rice mill. The Court interfered only with the trial court’s order rejecting one of the accused’s applications and directed reconsideration, while refusing to disturb the dismissal of the other two applications.
The case stemmed from FIR No. 36 of 2016 registered at Police Station Jodhan, Ludhiana Rural, under Section 406 of the IPC. The complaint was lodged by the District Manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation, which alleged that...