MD TASLIM Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) IN this application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short 'the Code ') the petitioner has challenged the orders of the learned Magistrate as well as the revisional court, by reason of which petitioner 's prayer for closing the prosecution case has been rejected.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner has strenuously urged that none of the directions of the Supreme Court in the case of ''Common Cause '' A Registered Society vs. Union of India and others [(1996) 4 SCC 33] or clarificatory order subsequent thereto will be applicable to, the case of the petitioner inasmuch as Directions No. 1(a)(b)(c) and 2(a) to (f) are not applicable to the case of the petitioner. According to him those directions were made by the Supreme Court where imprisonment is not exceeding three years and the accused is not on bail.