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Supreme Court judgments on Section 161, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

10 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 161 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

P Krishna Mohan Reddy vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
SC · 16 May 2025
[2025] 5 S.C.R. 1221 : 2025 INSC 725
Whether the statement of an accused u/s.161, Cr.P.C implicating co-accused can be looked into qua such co-accused at the stage of anticipatory bail or regular bail; whether the High Court exercised its discretion in a ju…
Renuka Prasad vs The State Represented by Assistant Superintendent of Police
SC · 9 May 2025
[2025] 7 S.C.R. 160 : 2025 INSC 657
Whether the High Court erred in reversing the acquittal and convicting the accused persons based on the testimony of the IOs which was founded only on s.161, CrPC statements of the witnesses; whether present was a case o…
Chunni Bai vs State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 28 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1816 : 2025 INSC 577
Whether the accused at the time of commission of crime was incapable of making conscious and informed decision or was suffering from certain mental incapacity or unsoundness of mind; Whether a benefit of doubt may be ext…
Ajwar vs Niyaj Ahmad & Anr.
SC · 30 September 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 356 : 2022 INSC 1054
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss. 161, 482, 173 – Bail – When not granted – FIR was registered against the ten accused for offence punishable u/s 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 352 and 504 r/w. s.34 of the IPC – The first…
Munikrishna @ Krishna etc. vs State by Ulsoor Ps
SC · 30 September 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 415 : 2022 INSC 1322
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 34 – Constitution of India – Article 20(3) – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.161 – Evidence Act – ss.25, 27 – Murder of old aged person – Circumstantial Evidence – Appellants were convicte…
Honnaiah T.H. vs State of Karnataka and Others
SC · 4 August 2022
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 1108 : 2022 INSC 794
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss.161. 397(2) – Prosecution csae was that FIR was registered on 26 December 2016 for offences punishable under ss.143, 147, 148, 504, 323, 302, 307, 114 and 149 of the IPC – According…
Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra vs Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir
SC · 25 February 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 102 : 2022 INSC 240
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss.173(6), 207 and 161 – Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 – s.44 – Whether in the case of certain witnesses being declared as protected witnesses in the exercise of powers u/s…
Manno Lal Jaiswal vs The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 25 January 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 990 : 2022 INSC 97
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss. 439 and 161 – Bail – Grant of – Appellant lodged FIR against the respondents-accused for murder of his son – Respondents-accused applied for bail – Sessions Courts rejected the said…
Mani Pushpak Joshi vs State of Uttarakhand & Anr.
SC · 17 October 2019
[2019] 13 S.C.R. 819 : 2019 INSC 1161
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.319 and ss.161, 164 - FIR lodged by the father of prosecutrix (aged about 6 years) about sexual assault on her - Prosecutrix in her statement inter alia stated that after she returned…
Pradeep Bisoi @ Ranjit Bisoi vs The State of Odisha
SC · 10 October 2018
[2018] 12 S.C.R. 947 : 2018 INSC 950
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.161 – Statement of injured under, if can be treated as dying declaration after death – Brother of PW-1, informant attacked by the appellant-accused and later died in hospital – Appell…

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