Indian Court Judgments — 2018

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Dr. Jagdish Prasad & Ors. vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482 – Quashing of proceedings – Complaint filed against the appellant under ss.498A, 323 IPC and ss. 3…

3 December 2018 · Abhay Manohar Sapre, Indu Malhotra

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Sangeeta Agrawal & Ors. vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of proceedings – Complaint filed under ss.498A, 304B IPC – Application for quashing the p…

3 December 2018 · Abhay Manohar Sapre, Indu Malhotra

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Geeta & Ors. vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of proceedings – Complaint filed under s.498A IPC – Application for quashing the proceedi…

3 December 2018 · Abhay Manohar Sapre, Indu Malhotra

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Dilbag Rai vs The State of Haryana & Ors.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of FIR/criminal proceedings under – On facts, proceedings arising out of F.I.R. registere…

3 December 2018 · Disposed · D.Y. Chandrachud, M.R. Shah

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State Rep. by the Drugs Inspector vs Manimaran

Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 – ss. 18(c), 27(b)(ii), 28 and proviso to 27(b)(ii) – Prosecution case was that when drugs inspectors had insp…

30 November 2018 · Allowed · R. Banumathi, Indira Banerjee

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Narayan Malhari Thorat vs Vinayak Deorao Bhagat and Anr.

Penal Code, 1860 – s. 306 – Appellant’s son and daughterin-law were teachers in a school where the respondent was also a teacher – Responden…

28 November 2018 · Allowed · Uday Umesh Lalit, D.Y. Chandrachud

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Chhannu Lal Verma vs The State of Chhattisgarh

Administration of Criminal Justice – Capital punishment – Commutation of – Appellant allegedly murdered three persons and caused grievous in…

28 November 2018 · Partly allowed · Kurian Joseph, Deepak Gupta, Hemant Gupta

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The State of Himachal Pradesh vs Manga Singh

Penal Code, 1860 – s.376 – Prosecutrix-PW-4 was staying in her aunt’s house – Respondent-accused is son of the aunt – FIR filed stating that…

28 November 2018 · R. Banumathi, Indira Banerjee

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Palani vs State of Tamil Nadu

Penal Code, 1860 – ss.148, 435 r/w. s.149 and s.302 r/w. s.149 – Case of the prosecution that when mother and brother of ‘S’ (PW-1 and PW-2…

27 November 2018 · Dismissed · R. Banumathi, Indira Banerjee

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Dr. Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar vs The State of Maharashtra & Ors.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Exercise of power, scope – Discussed. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of procee…

22 November 2018 · Allowed · A.K. Sikri, S. Abdul Nazeer

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Santosh @ Santosh Kumar vs State of Kerala

Kerala Abkari Act s. 55(a) and (1) – Prosecution u/s. 55(a) – Of appellantaccused alongwith other co-accused – Trial court acquitting one co…

16 November 2018 · Allowed · Abhay Manohar Sapre, Indu Malhotra

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Anand Kumar Mohatta and Anr. vs State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) Department of Home and Anr.

S.C.R. 1028 ANAND KUMAR MOHATTA AND ANR. v. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) DEPARTMENT OF HOME AND ANR. (Criminal Appeal No. 1395 of 2018) NOV…

15 November 2018 · Allowed · S.A. Bobde, L. Nageswara Rao

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Labhuji Amratji Thakor & Ors. vs The State of Gujarat & Anr.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 319 – Power under – Scope of – Application under s. 319, alleging complicity of the appellants in a cas…

13 November 2018 · Allowed · A.K. Sikri, Ashok Bhushan, Ajay Rastogi

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Lourembam Deben Singh & Ors. vs Union of India & Ors. etc.

Extra-judicial Executions: Mandamus – Role of Constitutional Court in monitoring investigations in continuing mandamus – The instant writ pe…

12 November 2018 · Dismissed · Madan B. Lokur, Uday Umesh Lalit

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Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association & Anr. vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of FIRs – In the instant case, lease of land was granted by the Government to the appella…

2 November 2018 · Disposed · A.K. Sikri, Ashok Bhushan

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Babasaheb Maruti Kamble vs State of Maharashtra

S.C.R. 1154 BABASAHEB MARUTI KAMBLE v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA (Review Petition (Criminal) No. 388 of 2015) In (Special Leave Petition (Crimina…

1 November 2018 · Allowed · A.K. Sikri, Ashok Bhushan, Indira Banerjee

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Jangir Singh vs The State of Punjab

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 304 Part I and 300 Exception II - Right to private defence – Benefit of – On facts, altercation between the appellant…

31 October 2018 · Disposed · N.V. Ramana, Mohan M. Shantanagoudar

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Kamil vs State of Uttar Pradesh

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 464 – Effect of omission to frame, or absence of, or error in, charge – On facts, conviction of accused…

31 October 2018 · Dismissed · R. Banumathi, Indira Banerjee