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REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 353 OF 2020
Satishkumar Nyalchand Shah .. Appellant
Versus
State of Gujarat & Ors. .. Respondents
J U D G M E N T
M.R. Shah, J.
Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order
dated 24.12.2018 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in Criminal
Miscellaneous Application No. 1 of 2018 in Special Criminal Application No. 8704
of 2018, by which the High Court has dismissed the said application preferred by
the appellant herein permitting him to be joined as respondent No. 4 in the said
Special Criminal Application No. 8704 of 2018, which was filed by the private
respondent herein seeking further investigation against other persons (other than
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the appellant who is one of the accused and is already charge-sheeted), the
appellant has preferred the present appeal.
2. The facts leading to the present appeal in nutshell are as under:
That in an earthquake on 26.01.2001, number of buildings collapsed,
including the building named Shikhar Apartment situated at Village Vejalpur,
Ahmedabad. That due to the collapse of the said Shikhar apartment, 98 persons
died. That the private respondent herein-the victim lodged the FIR, being CR No.
I-58 of 2001 with the Satellite Police Station against the appellant and others for
the offences punishable under Sections 304, 418, 420 and 114 of IPC and Section