CrPC Section 341 — Appeal

Official Text

(1) Any person on whose application any Court other than a High Court has refused to make a complaint under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 340, or against whom such a complaint has been made by such Court, may appeal to the Court to which such former Court is subordinate within the meaning of sub-section (4) of section 195, and the superior Court may thereupon, after notice to the parties concerned, direct the withdrawal of the complaint, or, as the case may be, making of the complaint which such former Court might have made under section 340, and, if it makes such complaint, the provisions of that section shall apply accordingly.

(2) An order under this section, and subject to any such order, an order under section 340, shall be final, and shall not be subject to revision.

Sections referred to

• CrPC §195 — Prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants, for offences against public justice and for offences relating to documents given in evidence
• CrPC §340 — Procedure in cases mentioned in section 195

Referred to by

• CrPC §342 — Power to order costs
• CrPC §343 — Procedure of Magistrate taking cognizance

Related Judgments

• MOTI LAL SONGARA vs PREM PRAKASH @ PAPPU AND ANR — Supreme Court of India (2013)
• Mr. Deepak Gokulchand Aggarwal vs Mrs Meghna Deepak Aggarwal — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2018)
• SACHIN vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• K. SUDHAKARAN vs STATE OF KERALA — Supreme Court of India (2009)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNSS §380 — Appeal