Acquittal Archives - Page 16 of 41 - Supreme Court of India Judgements

May 10, 2025 4:27 pm

Murder – Conviction and sentence – An accused cannot be convicted on the ground of suspicion, no matter how strong it is. An accused is presumed to be innocent unless proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt – Conviction and sentence set aside – Appeal allowed.

Aug 16, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH RAM NIWAS — Appellant Vs. STATE OF HARYANA — Respondent ( Before : B.R. Gavai and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No.…

Acquittal

Even the complainant also in complaint has not named appellant as the perpetrator of the offence, rather stated suspects foul play – Appellant stands discharged from the charges framed against him.

Aug 14, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH VIKRAMJIT KAKATI — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No(s).…

Acquittal

Murder – Life imprisonment – Appeal against reversing the order of acquittal – there are glaring contradictions between the testimony of even these two witnesses on the type of material object used and even on the role of A2, the very foundation of the case of the prosecution stood shaken –

Aug 14, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH RAMABORA @ RAMABORAIAH AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA — Respondent ( Before : Indira Banerjee and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ. ) Criminal…

Acquittal

Murder – Discharge – There is no iota of evidence which, in any manner, connect the appellant with the commission of crime – Even the complainant also in complaint has not named appellant as the perpetrator of the offence, rather stated suspects foul play –

Aug 8, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH VIKRAMJIT KAKATI — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No(s).…

Acquittal

It would not be safe and/or prudent to convict the accused solely on the basis of their identification for the first time in the Court – Conviction under Sections 302/34 and 392 of IPC is set aside.

Jul 24, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH AMRIK SINGH — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF PUNJAB — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and Aniruddha Bose, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No.…

Acquittal

(IPC) – S 302/34 – Murder – Common intention- HELD the evidence available on record was not looked into as the witnesses had already been exposed to the accused in the police station – After all, the test identification parade is only a part of an investigation, and therefore, nothing more can be attached to it – Acquittal

Jul 23, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH SHISHPAL @ SHISHU — Appellant Vs. THE STATE (NCT OF DELHI) — Respondent ( Before : Abhay S. Oka and M.M. Sundresh, JJ. )…

Acquittal

Last seen theory – When the last seen theory is found to be not true, there has to be much more concrete and clinching evidence to implicate the accused. HELD when a large number of persons were available near the dead body, it is incomprehensible as to how all of them refused to sign the documents prepared by the police – Order of conviction is set aside.

Jul 23, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH RAVI SHARMA — Appellant Vs. STATE (GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI) AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Abhay S. Oka and M.M. Sundresh,…

Acquittal

Recovery having not been proved in the manner known to law, coupled with inadequate evidence on record to implicate the appellant – Prosecution has failed in its attempt to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that the appellant has committed the offence

Jul 23, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH VIRENDRA — Appellant Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH — Respondent ( Before : Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No.…

Acquittal Corruption

PCA & IPC – HELD the recovery of the tickets is found to have not been made in accordance with law, nor the seized tickets could be connected to the three different buses and the conductors manning the said buses (the appellants), it would not be safe to rely upon the unconfirmed tickets to connect them to the appellants – Prosecution did not proceed with application for secondary evidence qua enquiry report.

Jul 23, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH JARNAIL SINGH AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal…

Acquittal

Murder – Acquittal – Only circumstance of last seen will not complete the chain of circumstances to record the finding that it is consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused, and therefore no conviction on that basis alone can be founded – Appellant acquitted

Jun 19, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISON BENCH CHANDRAPAL — Appellant Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH (EARLIER M.P.) — Respondent ( Before : Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ. ) Criminal…

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