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Supreme Court and High Courts judgments on Examination of accused (Section 313 CrPC)

42 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. A judgment is listed here when its headnote names this subject: the Supreme Court Reports' own headnote (filed under the provisions below, or naming the subject), or an AI-written headnote that was reviewed and approved. A mention in the full text alone does not count.

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Section 313, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 8
Jeet Ram vs The Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh
SC · 15 September 2020
[2020] 7 S.C.R. 558 : 2020 INSC 545
Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 – ss.20, 50 and 54 – Appellant was charged u/s.20 – Acquitted by trial court – Convicted by High Court – On appeal, held: Findings recorded by trial court are contrary t…
Manoj Suryavanshi vs State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 5 March 2020
[2020] 4 S.C.R. 1 : 2020 INSC 275
Penal Code, 1860: ss.302, 364 – Murder of three minor children – Case based on circumstantial evidence – Prosecution case was that the complainant lodged missing report of his three minor children aged about 8 years, 6 y…
Paul vs State of Kerala
SC · 21 January 2020
[2020] 1 S.C.R. 1091 : 2020 INSC 69
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 – Prosecution under – Initially acquittal by trial court – On appeal, case remanded to trial court – On remand conviction by Trial Court – Conviction affirmed by High Court – Appeal to Supreme Co…
Duleshwar & Anr. vs The State of M.P. (Now Chhattisgarh)
SC · 21 January 2020
[2020] 5 S.C.R. 1001 : 2020 INSC 61
Penal Code,1860: ss. 147, 148, 302, 302/149 and 325 - Prosecution under – Of 18 accused persons – For causing grievous injury to one person PW1 and causing death of another – In two different incidents – Eye-witnesses to…
Manoharan vs State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore
SC · 7 November 2019
[2019] 18 S.C.R. 1078 : 2019 INSC 1216
Review – In death penalty cases – Application of restrictive principles – Murder – Rape – Co-accused (now deceased) using borrowed school van, picked up a 10-year old girl and her 7-year old brother who were waiting to g…
Manjit Singh vs The State of Punjab
SC · 3 September 2019
[2019] 11 S.C.R. 554 : 2019 INSC 992
MANJIT SINGH v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB (Criminal Appeal No. 1079 of 2011) SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 [A. M. KHANWILKAR AND DINESH MAHESHWARI, JJ.] Penal Code, 1860: ss. 148, 302/149, 323, 324 and 326/149 – Prosecution under – Of sev…
Samsul Haque vs The State of Assam
SC · 26 August 2019
[2019] 11 S.C.R. 229 : 2019 INSC 953
11 S.C.R. 11 S.C.R. SAMSUL HAQUE v. THE STATE OF ASSAM (Criminal Appeal No.1905 of 2009) AUGUST 26, 2019 [SANJAY KISHAN KAUL AND K. M. JOSEPH, JJ.] Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Prosecution case was that the victim-deceased…
Manoharan vs State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore
SC · 1 August 2019
[2019] 18 S.C.R. 1007 : 2019 INSC 851
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 376 and 201 – Murder – Rape – Co-accused (now deceased) using borrowed school van, picked up a 10-year old girl and her 7-year old brother who were waiting to go to school – He thereafter picke…
Surendra Singh & Anr. vs State of Uttarakhand
SC · 4 December 2018
[2018] 14 S.C.R. 1056 : 2018 INSC 1148
Penal Code, 1860: ss.457, 380 and 302/34 – Prosecution under – Of three accused – Circumstantial evidence – Conviction of all the three accused by courts below – Appeal against A-1 abated due to death of A-1 during pende…
State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) vs Pankaj Chaudhary and Ors.
SC · 30 October 2018
[2018] 14 S.C.R. 78 : 2018 INSC 1017
Penal Code, 1860 – s.376(2)(g) – Case of the prosecution that accused-respondents, living in the neighbourhood of the prosecutrix entered her jhuggi on 28.07.1997 at about 9.00 pm and raped her – Trial court convicted th…
Mukesh vs State of NCT of Delhi
SC · 9 July 2018
[2018] 7 S.C.R. 898 : 2018 INSC 590
Review – Nirbhaya Case – Gang rape and murder of a young woman – All four accused convicted and sentenced to death by the trial Court – Death penalty confirmed by the High Court – Appeals dismissed by the Supreme Court –…
Sonvir @ Somvir vs The State of NCT of Delhi
SC · 2 July 2018
[2018] 7 S.C.R. 830 : 2018 INSC 562
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 392 u/s. 34 – Prosecution of three accused, including appellant (accused No. 2) – For double murder – u/ss. 120-B, 302, 392 and 397-IPC – Trial court relying on the circumstantial evidence v…

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