KARAN SOOD Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) (ORAL)

(2.) THE petitioner, by way of the present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (`Cr.P.C.' for short) seeks direction to the respondents to submit final report in terms of Section 173 Cr.P.C. in case FIR No.395, dated 28.10.1996, registered at Police Station Sadar, Ludhiana for the offence under Section 307,34 of the Indian Penal Code ('IPC' for short). THE offence under section 307 IPC was later on converted into Section 302 IPC on 2.11.1996. In reply filed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Ludhiana, it is stated that necessary cancellation report has been filed in the Court of Sh.Sanjay Agnihotri, Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Ludhiana on 12.4.2003. It is further submitted that the complainant Smt. Asha Jethi, was summoned but she had already died on 1.11.1996. One of the accused in the case