The riot culminated in a toll of human lives and huge destruction of property.
From the Judgment and Order dated 31st December, 1985 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Crl.
The appellants were arrested in the forenoon of July 19, 1985 and were produced before the IIIrd Additional Munsif Magistrate, Chirala on the next day, i.e. July 20, 1985.
The investigating officer filed a charge sheet in the case at 10.30 A.M. on October 17, 1985, that being the 90th day of remand.
278 of 1986.
Five persons were left dead, twenty others were victims of injuries of varying degrees, properties were looted and hutments were damaged or destroyed.
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They were initially remanded to judicial custody for a period of 15 days and thereafter the remand was extended from time to time till October 18, 1985.
The hamlet of Madigawada in Village Karamchedu in Andhra Pradesh was the scene of a horrendous riot on the morning of July 17, 1985.
Petition No.
In companynection with the macabre events the police authorities arrested 94 persons including the appellants herein and had them remanded to custody.
Madhusudan Rao and A. Subba Rao for the Appellants.
4049 of 1985.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by 1134 NATARAJAN, J. This appeal by special leave against an order of a learned Single Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in a petition filed under Section 439 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure hereinafter referred to as the Code calls for a critical examination of the scope and effect of proviso a to Section 167 2 of the Code.
Ram Reddy, T.V.S.N. Chari and Ms. Vrinda Grover for the Respondent.
Several High Courts have rendered decisions companystruing differently the terms of the proviso but a need for the examination of the terms of the proviso by this Court had number arisen till number.
The circumstances which form the prefactory for this appeal can be summarised as under.
