ISSUE:
Whether High Courts can direct the manner of investigation by an investigating agency under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“Code”)?
RULE:
The High Court cannot interfere with the investigation of crime under Section 482 of the Code by directing the police to investigate in accordance with its views.
The only grounds for exercising the High Courts’ powers under Section 482 of the Code are – to secure the ends of justice, to give effect to any order under the Code, or to prevent abuse of the process of any court.