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Supreme Court judgments on Section 326, Indian Penal Code, 1860

8 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 326 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

Mohammad Afzal Mohammad Sharif vs The State of Maharashtra and Others
SC · 11 September 2025
[2025] 10 S.C.R. 78 : 2025 INSC 1100
The complaint of the appellant before the High Court was that the police officers concerned had failed in their duty by not registering a First Information Report apropos the attack and assault on him by four individuals…
Kunhimuhammed@Kunheethu vs The State of Kerala
SC · 6 December 2024
[2024] 12 S.C.R. 392 : 2024 INSC 937
Whether appellant had the intention to commit murder; whether the appellant’s act can be brought under section 304, IPC in light of the offence being committed in exercise of private defense and thereby exceeding the pow…
State of U.P. vs Jai Dutt and Anr.
SC · 19 January 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 215 : 2022 INSC 71
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302 and 326 – Murder – Conviction by trial court u/s.302 accepting the prosecution case that the accused persons armed with deadly weapons went to the agricultural field were the victim (complainant…
Bhagwan Narayan Gaikwad vs The State of Maharashtra and Ors.
SC · 20 September 2021
[2021] 9 S.C.R. 81 : 2021 INSC 503
Penal Code, 1860 – s.326 – Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons – Conviction under – Prosecution case that the appellant and other accused persons attacked the victim with a lethal weapon which chopped…
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…
Yogendra @ Jogendra Singh vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 17 January 2019
[2019] 1 S.C.R. 248 : 2019 INSC 54
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 326(A) and 460 – Murder – Conviction and death sentence – High Court affirmed conviction and sentence – Prosecution case was that the appellant threw acid on the victim-deceased which resulted…
C. R. Kariyappa vs State of Karnataka
SC · 5 September 2018
[2018] 11 S.C.R. 150 : 2018 INSC 786
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 325 and 326 – Voluntarily causing grievous hurt – On facts, appellant-school teacher assaulted a second class student with wooden stick resulting in loss of eye sight on the left eye – Acquittal by…
Bannareddy & Ors. vs State of Karnataka & Ors.
SC · 12 March 2018
[2018] 4 S.C.R. 623 : 2018 INSC 231
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.148, 341, 504, 326 r/w.149 – Prosecution case that accused No.2 picked up quarrel with P.W-2, thereafter on same day, the accused-appellants armed with weapons attacked P.W-2, P.W.-3 and P.W-5 – Cer…

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