Second Complaint After Closure Report in First Complaint Cannot Be Maintained by Adding New Offence for the Same Incident: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled that a second complaint filed under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the same complainant, concerning the very same incident for which a closure report had already been filed earlier, is not legally maintainable. The bench of Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma set aside the Kerala High Court’s decision that had refused to quash such a second complaint. Background…