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2017 (7) TMI 310 - HC - Money LaunderingOffense under Money Laundering - application filed under Section 210 Cr.P.C. for clubbing the complaint case bearing under Sections 5(5) and 45 (1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 with case bearing FIR No.131 registered at Police Station Nawanshahr, under Sections 420, 177, 191, 206, 207 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code - Held that:- The provisions of Section 210 Cr.P.c. would show that when investigation is in progress in a police case, only then proceedings should be stayed in a complaint case, but once investigation has been completed, then the provisions of Section 210 Cr.P.C. has no application. It is stated that charge-sheet in the case instituted on police report has already been submitted, therefore, no investigation by the police was in progress in relation to the said offence at the point of time. The Court after discussing the law held that the police has already submitted the final report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. before learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawanshahr on 15.12.2014. Though, the case was committed on 30.04.2015, the complaint was filed on 04.12.2014. At the time of filing the complaint, no investigation was pending before the police. Thus, the provisions of Section 210 Cr.P.C. are not applicable in the present case. The learned trial Court has correctly held that the offences under the complaint and in the FIR case are entirely different and both the cases cannot be clubbed together.
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