NEW DELHI: A clean chit or closure report filed by the police cannot circumscribe the trial court's power to summon individuals as accused, the Supreme Court has held, reinforcing the vital role of courts in safeguarding justice by independently assessing evidence presented during criminal trials.
"The trial court has undoubted jurisdiction to add any person not being the accused before it to face the trial along with other accused persons, if the court is satisfied at any stage of the proceedings on the evidence adduced that the persons who have not been arrayed as accused should face the trial," held a bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan.
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