Ramesh Chandra Vaishya vs The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 19 May 2023
[2023] 6 S.C.R. 643 : 2023 INSC 569
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – ss. 3(1)(x), 18 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 323, 325, 392, 452, 504, 506 – Prosecution case that the appellant was engaged in an altercation w…
Ravi Mandal vs State of Uttarakhand
SC · 18 May 2023
[2023] 7 S.C.R. 1 : 2023 INSC 552
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302, 34 and 201 – Arms Act, 1959 – ss. 4 and 25 – Acquittal under – FIR lodged by PW-1 (father of deceased) after founding dead body of his son at 0730 hours on 01.11.2001 in a forest, alleging tha…
Dinesh Kumar vs The State of Haryana
SC · 4 May 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 220 : 2023 INSC 493
Penal Code,1860 – ss.302,364,392,394,201 and 34 – Evidence Act, 1872 – ss.27,101,106 and 165 – The case of prosecution was based on circumstantial evidence i.e. the evidence of ‘last seen’ and the ‘discoveries’ made from…
State of Madhya Pradesh vs Phoolchand Rathore
SC · 28 April 2023
[2023] 5 S.C.R. 601 : 2023 INSC 444
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302 and 201 – Acquittal under – Prosecution rested its case on the circumstances, inter-alia, (a) the accused bore a grudge against his wife for keeping jewellery with her sister (PW8); (b) on the…
Santosh @ Bhure vs State (G.N.C.T.) of Delhi
SC · 28 April 2023
[2023] 7 S.C.R. 719 : 2023 INSC 443
Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 r/w. s.34 – Acquittal under – Prosecution case that ‘S’ was tenant of an apartment on the second floor of a building owned by PW-3 – On 12.09.2000, at about 10.40 a.m., an information was given…
Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal vs Balwant Singh Khera and Ors.
SC · 28 April 2023
[2023] 10 S.C.R. 917 : 2023 INSC 466
Representation of People Act, 1951 – s. 29-A(5) – Sikh Gurudwaras Act, 1925 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 420, 463, 465, 466, 467, 468, 471 r/w s. 120B, 191, 192 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss. 202, 204, 315, 482 – A…
Ravinder Singh vs The State Govt. of NCT of Delhi
SC · 25 April 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 480 : 2023 INSC 426
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s. 432 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 45, 53 – Power to impose a modified punishment – Special category sentencing to life imprisonment in excess of 14 years – Appellant was convicted for hav…
Maghavendra Pratap Singh @ Pankaj Singh vs State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 24 April 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 829 : 2023 INSC 415
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 , 201, 120-B – Circumstantial Evidence – Criminal Conspiracy – Businessman-victim threatened for money and shot dead by two motorcyclists – Appellant and several others chargesheeted – Trial cou…
Dakkata Balaram Reddy & Anr. vs State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 21 April 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 887 : 2023 INSC 411
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 397, 450 – Case based on circumstantial evidence – Case of the prosecution that appellantsaccused (A1 and A2) trespassed into house of PW-1, wherein he also did his gold and silver business, co…
Charan Singh @ Charanjit Singh vs The State of Uttarakhand
SC · 20 April 2023
[2023] 3 S.C.R. 511 : 2023 INSC 404
Penal Code, 1860 : ss. 304 B, 498 A and 201 – Dowry Death – Presumption as to dowry death – Prosecution case that woman married two years ago, killed by her husband-appellant and inlaws for dowry – Death was unnatural an…
Siju Kurian vs State of Karnataka
SC · 17 April 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 397 : 2023 INSC 378
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 201, 404 and 419 – Circumstantial Evidence – Reliance upon – Prosecution case that the accusedlabourer in the farmhouse of the victim, murdered the victim by hitting him with iron rod and then…
Shiva Kumar @ Shiva @ Shivamurthy vs State of Karnataka
SC · 28 March 2023
[2023] 4 S.C.R. 669 : 2023 INSC 306
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.366, 376 and 302 – Power to impose modified punishment – Appellant convicted u/ss. 366, 376 and 302 IPC – Trial Court sentenced the appellant to undergo rigorous imprisonment for the rest of his lif…
Ms. X vs The State of Maharashtra and Another
SC · 17 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 1112 : 2023 INSC 252
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss. 437,438 and 439 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 354,354-B, 376 and 506 – Anticipatory bail – Cancellation of – A complaint filed by the appellantprosecutrix, against the respondent No.2-ac…
Pradeep Kumar vs State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 16 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 682 : 2023 INSC 242
Penal Code,1860 – ss. 302,34,201 – Two accused persons (including appellant) were convicted for offence of murder by trial Court –The prosecution case, rested upon three circumstances (a) the alleged confessional stateme…
Narendrasinh Keshubhai Zala vs State of Gujarat
SC · 16 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 746 : 2023 INSC 241
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302/34 – Arms Act, 1959 – ss. 25(1) A, 27(2) – Acquittal of accused – Appellant was accused of having committed the murder of the victim-deceased by shooting at him while he was sitting on a Nala w…
Udayakumar vs State of Tamil Nadu
SC · 16 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 943 : 2023 INSC 239
Penal Code, 1860 : ss. 302, 120B – Murder – Due to rivalry A-1 alongwith A-3 hatched a conspiracy to murder the victim and engaged services of A-2 for the same – A-2 killed the victim with a sickle thereafter, fled with…
Ravasaheb @ Ravasahebgouda etc. vs State of Karnataka
SC · 16 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 965 : 2023 INSC 238
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Victim was murdered – The trial court and the High Court, despite most of the prosecution witnesses turning hostile, found the prosecution case to be established beyond reasonable doubt through…
Ravi Dhingra vs The State of Haryana
SC · 1 March 2023
[2023] 2 S.C.R. 164 : 2023 INSC 182
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.364A, 363 and 364 – Modification of conviction u/s.364A to s.363 – Appellants convicted u/ss.148, 364A r/w s.149, IPC – Sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 3 years u/s.148, rigorous impri…
Kashibai & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka
SC · 28 February 2023
[2023] 3 S.C.R. 175 : 2023 INSC 722
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.498A, 306 r/w 34 – Appellants-accused were convicted u/ss.498A, 306 r/w 34 and sentenced – Held: Deceased was subjected to harassment at the instance of appellants – Prosecution has successfully bro…
Naim Ahamed vs State (NCT of Delhi)
SC · 30 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 1061 : 2023 INSC 85
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.375, 376 – Conviction u/s.376, when not justified – Plea of the respondents was that the prosecutrix gave her consent for sexual relationship under the misconception of fact, as the accused had give…
Prasad Pradhan & Anr. vs The State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 24 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 241 : 2023 INSC 79
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.34 – Murder – Prosecution case that appellant/accused and the victim were cousins – On the afternoon of 28.02.2012, when the victim was getting his land levelled through a JCB machine, the…
John Anthonisamy @ John vs State, Rep. by the Inspector of Police
SC · 19 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 279 : 2023 INSC 54
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.201 – Murder – Circumstantial evidence – Purported extra-judicial confession – Effect – Five accused including appellant (A-1) – Prosecution case that in pursuance of a conspiracy, the accu…
Jabir & Ors. vs The State of Uttarakhand
SC · 17 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 969 : 2023 INSC 48
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 364, 201 – The prosecution case was that the victim ‘H’, aged about 7 years, went missing on 8.10.1999 – On 10.10.1999, his dead body was found in the sugarcane field of ‘Y’ in Village – The vi…
