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Supreme Court judgments on Section 149, Indian Penal Code, 1860

37 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 149 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

Zainul vs The State of Bihar
SC · 7 October 2025
[2025] 11 S.C.R. 60 : 2025 INSC 1192
The High Court dismissed the appeal preferred by the appellants herein and thereby affirmed the judgment and order of conviction passed by the Trial Court in Sessions Case No. 124 of 1989 holding the appellants herein gu…
Agniraj & Ors. etc. vs State through Deputy Superintendent of Police CB-CID
SC · 23 May 2025
[2025] 5 S.C.R. 856 : 2025 INSC 774
Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction of the appellants/accused no. 1 to 11 for offences punishable u/ss.302 and 307 r/w. s.149 of the Penal Code, 1860 and the other offences; whether, in the i…
Renuka vs State of Karnataka and Anr.
SC · 29 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1936 : 2025 INSC 596
Appellant-wife has challenged the impugned order whereby the High Court quashed proceeding u/ss.498-A, 324, 355, 504, 506 r/w. s.149 of the Penal Code, 1860 against the respondent-husband.
K.P. Tamilmaran vs The State by Deputy Superintendent of Police
SC · 28 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1865 : 2025 INSC 576
Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction and sentence of A-15 under Sections 217, 218, Penal Code, 1860 and ss.3(2)(i), 4, SC/ST Act, 1989 and modifying the conviction and sentence of A-14, while…
Nitya Nand vs State of U.P. & Anr.
SC · 4 September 2024
[2024] 9 S.C.R. 37 : 2024 INSC 655
Whether the prosecution could prove the charges against the appellant under Sections 148 and 302/149 IPC beyond reasonable doubt. Whether the appellant was a part of the unlawful assembly and if he actually took part in…
Basamsetti Rama Devi vs The State of A.P. & Ors.
SC · 7 August 2024
[2024] 8 S.C.R. 1687 : 2024 INSC 1055
In cases relating to quashing of criminal complaint against the accused police officers-respondents in matters of custodial death, whether the High Court was justified in setting aside the committal order and discharging…
Shashikant Sharma & Ors. vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 1 December 2023
[2023] 15 S.C.R. 1067 : 2023 INSC 1036
Whether the prima facie ingredients of the offence punishable u/s. 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act were made out against the appellants.
Surendra Singh vs State of Rajasthan and Anr.
SC · 11 April 2023
[2023] 3 S.C.R. 354 : 2023 INSC 354
Penal Code, 1860 – s.149 – Applicability of – High Court set aside the respondent-accused’s conviction for the offence punishable u/s.302/149, IPC on the ground that the initial chargesheet was filed only against two acc…
Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel vs State of U.P.
SC · 4 November 2022
[2022] 12 S.C.R. 1035 : 2022 INSC 1164
Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 r/w s.149, s.307 r/w s.149 and s.148 – Arms Act, 1959 – ss.25 and 30 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.293 – Murder of five persons – Seven accused – The deceased belonged to or were associ…
Gurmail Singh & Anr. vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 17 October 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 1011 : 2022 INSC 1097
Penal Code, 1860: s.149 – Unlawful Assembly – In the instant case, Accused Nos. 1 and 2 are real brothers of the victim-deceased – Land dispute arose between accused persons and deceased – On the fateful day, deceased go…
Md. Jabbar Ali & Ors. vs The State of Assam
SC · 17 October 2022
[2022] 15 S.C.R. 773 : 2022 INSC 1096
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 r/w 149, 148,123 and 447 – Trial court convicted accused persons under different provisions of IPC including ss. 302 r/w 149, 148,123 and 447 – Prosecution had examined ten witnesses before tria…
Aminuddin vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 23 September 2022
[2022] 19 S.C.R. 271 : 2022 INSC 1020
Bail – Grant of, on parity – When not justified – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.147, 148, 149, 302, 352 and 34 – Held: When the bail granted to co-accused person has been disapproved by Supreme Court and such grant of bail to co…
Chaitu Gowala and Another vs The State of Assam
SC · 7 September 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 190 : 2022 INSC 937
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302 and 149 – Appellants alongwith 70 other accused persons were accused of murdering the Managing Director of a company in which they were working – Prosecution examined three eye witnesses who id…
Zakir Abdul Mirajkar vs The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
SC · 24 August 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 150 : 2022 INSC 855
Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act,1999 – ss.2(1)(f), 3(1)(ii), 3(2), 3(4), 3(5), 18, 23 and 427 – Penal Code 1860 – ss. 143, 147, 149, 395, 307, 353, 332, 155, 109, 324, 323 and 427 – Maharashtra Prevention of G…
Ajmal vs The State of Kerala
SC · 12 July 2022
[2022] 14 S.C.R. 503 : 2022 INSC 709
Penal Code, 1860: ss.34, 149, 302, 304 Part II– Culpable homicide not amounting to murder – Deceased along with other friends were stopped by ten accused persons – Verbal altercation took place – Deceased was beaten by a…
Mahendra Singh and Ors. vs State of M.P.
SC · 3 June 2022
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 737 : 2022 INSC 637
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302 r/w s.149, and s.148 – Murder – Conviction of accused-appellants on basis of sole testimony of PW6 – High Court found PW6 to be in the category of a witness who was “neither wholly reliable nor…
The State of Uttar Pradesh vs Subhash @ Pappu
SC · 1 April 2022
[2022] 5 S.C.R. 832 : 2022 INSC 382
Penal Code, 1860: ss.146, 148, 149,302, 304 – Prosecution case was that six (out of which three persons were unknown) persons came to a shop and attacked the servant (deceased) of the shop with knife and hockey for refus…
Karan Singh vs The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
SC · 2 March 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 473 : 2022 INSC 253
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.149; s.307 r/w s.149 and s.148 – Conviction of appellant along with other accused by trial court as well as by High Court under the aforesaid sections – Prosecution case was that there was d…
Subhash vs State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 1 February 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 258 : 2022 INSC 127
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.149 and s.148 – Murder – Informant was sitting with his brother, the deceased, on a cot when the six accused persons allegedly arrived at the scene – Allegation that A-3 and three other acc…
Laxman Prasad Pandey vs The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 11 December 2021
[2021] 9 S.C.R. 629 : 2021 INSC 874
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.147, 148, 149, 307, 302, 188 and s.120B – Arms Act – s.27/30 – Two FIRs were filed, both pertained to the same incident – There was a clash of two groups by using firearms which resulted in indiscri…
Rajendra @ Rajappa and Ors. vs State of Karnataka
SC · 26 March 2021
[2021] 2 S.C.R. 293 : 2021 INSC 219
Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 r/w 149 – Murder pursuant to armed assault – Deceased was assaulted with axe, stick, pickaxe and stone when he was coming back from work alongwith his wife (PW1) and elder brother (PW2) – Six ac…
Parvat Singh & Ors. vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 2 March 2020
[2020] 2 S.C.R. 964 : 2020 INSC 244
Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 r/w s. 149 – Murder – All the accused including the appellants came to be tried by the Trial Court for the offences u/s. 302 r/w. s. 149 of the IPC for having killed son of the informant-PW-8 –…
Ramji Singh & Ors. vs The State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 11 December 2019
[2019] 14 S.C.R. 253 : 2019 INSC 1357
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.147, 149, 452, 449 and 302 – Murder – Prosecution case that six persons (A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5 and A6) who were heavily armed, two of them with guns, killed victim in broad daylight between 12 and…
State of Madhya Pradesh vs Killu @ Kailash and Ors.
SC · 19 November 2019
[2019] 14 S.C.R. 95 : 2019 INSC 1264
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w. s.149 – Murder by members of an unlawful assembly – Prosecution case that five accused persons entered the house of victim in the midnight and inflicted injuries on him – Consequent to which…
State of Uttarakhand vs Darshan Singh
SC · 7 November 2019
[2019] 14 S.C.R. 338 : 2019 INSC 1221
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.147, 148, 149 and 302 – Murder – Acquittal of accused by the High Court – Prosecution case was that PW-1, his father, mother and maternal uncle-PW-4 were going on a tractor and PW-2 was following th…
Peer Singh vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 9 April 2019
[2019] 6 S.C.R. 549 : 2019 INSC 482
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.148 and s.149 – Murder – Fifteen person tried for murder – Prosecution case was that the victim-deceased was returning to his village on his motor cycle and was accompanied by two pillion ri…
Dauwalal @ Ganesh Devangan & Ors. vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 15 March 2019
[2019] 4 S.C.R. 247 : 2019 INSC 389
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.149 and s.147, 148, 323, 342, 450 – FIR lodged by Informant-PW-2 that his cousin was fatally assaulted – 17 persons including the appellants were tried for the offences punishable u/ss.147,…
Mahendran vs The State of Tamil Nadu
SC · 21 February 2019
[2019] 4 S.C.R. 383 : 2019 INSC 248
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.141, 149, 302 and 326 – Statement of PW1-son-in-law of one ‘M’, that on 12.03.94 while going to Nangarari with his father, due to darkness they decided to stay at his father-in-law’s house – He stat…
Puni Devi & Ors. vs Tulsi Ram
SC · 13 February 2019
[2019] 4 S.C.R. 1 : 2019 INSC 193
Penal Code, 1860 – s.379, 427, 447 and 504 r/w s.149 – Criminal trespass and theft – Complainant-respondent alleged that accused persons trespassed into his land, thereafter, they cut and removed the wheat crop from the…
Gupteswar Behera vs State of Odisha and Another
SC · 14 December 2018
[2018] 14 S.C.R. 1209 : 2018 INSC 1211
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 148, 149 and 302 – Prosecution case that victim attacked by five persons with sticks, axe and knife – PW 1, brother of the victim and investigating officer reached the place of occurrence – Victim,…

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