In Brief
A complainant alleged his son was wrongfully killed by police in 2002 and sought registration of a criminal complaint. After sixteen years of litigation involving the CBI investigation, multiple court orders, and conflicting decisions on whether the High Court or lower court should hear the revision petition, the Supreme Court declined to decide the jurisdictional question on technical grounds. Instead, emphasizing the constitutional right to speedy justice, it set aside the High Court's order and remitted the case for a hearing on merits without further delay, making clear it expressed no opinion on the substance.
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