In Brief
The appellant challenged the registration of a second FIR by NIA in relation to offences already covered in the first FIR. The Supreme Court held that a second FIR cannot be registered for the same offences; re-registration does not authorize fresh investigation. An accused on bail cannot be re-arrested by merely adding new offences without cancelling the bail. The Court found that remand should have been under Section 309(2) CrPC, not Section 167(2) CrPC. However, NIA retained jurisdiction to conduct further investigation and file supplementary reports under the original FIR. The appeal was dismissed.
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