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June 8, 2025 5:26 am

(CrPC) – S 319 – Power of summoning – HELD ordinarily the summoning of a person at the very threshold of the trial may be discouraged and the trial court must evaluate the evidence against the persons sought to be summoned and then adjudge whether such material is

Feb 23, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH JUHRU AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. KARIM AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Surya Kant and J.K. Maheshwari, JJ. ) Criminal Appeal No.…

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PMLA, 2022 – Money-laundering – Territorial jurisdiction – Issue of territorial jurisdiction cannot be decided in a writ petition, especially when there is a serious factual dispute about the place/places of commission of the offence.

Feb 14, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH RANA AYYUB — Appellant Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT THROUGH ITS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR — Respondent ( Before : V. Ramasubramanian and J.B. Pardiwala, JJ. )…

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Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) – Ss 323, 384, 406, 423, 467, 468, 420 and 120B – Civil remedy – In respect of the issue involved, which is of civil nature, the respondent had already a civil suit and it is pending, there can be no doubt with respect to the fact that the attempt on the part of the respondent is to use the criminal proceedings as weapon of harassment against the appellants. FIR Quashed

Jan 31, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH USHA CHAKRABORTY AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ.…

Cr P C Evidence Act

Chargesheet is not a “public document” – Therefore on conjoint reading of Section 173 Cr.P.C. and Section 207 Cr.P.C. the Investigating Agency is required to furnish the copies of the report along with the relevant documents to be relied upon by the prosecution to the accused and to none others. FIR on the website cannot be equated with putting the chargesheets

Jan 22, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH SAURAV DAS — Appellant Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ. ) Writ Petition…

Bail Declined Cr P C

Default bail – In a case where an accused is released on default bail under Section 167(2) Cr.P.C., and thereafter on filing of the chargesheet, a strong case is made out and on special reasons being made out from the chargesheet that the accused has committed a non-bailable crime bail can be cancelled on merits

Jan 19, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH THE STATE THROUGH CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION — Appellant Vs. T. GANGI REDDY @ YERRA GANGI REDDY — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah…

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(CrPC) – Sections 432 and 433-A – Remission of sentence – Since the case of the present petitioners is also similar to the case of the co-accused – Petitioners Application for remission need to be considered in the light of Laxman Naskar v Union of India (2002) 2 SCC 595

Jan 17, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH JASWANT SINGH AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND ANOHER — Respondent ( Before : Dinesh Maheshwari and Bela M. Trivedi,…

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Period of parole – Purpose of considering actual imprisonment, the period of parole is to be excluded.

Jan 8, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH ROHAN DHUNGAT ETC. — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF GOA AND OTHERS ETC. — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ.…

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(CrPC) – Section 482 – Summoning order – Quashing of – When the allegations in the complaint are so absurd or inherently improbable, on the basis of which no prudent person can ever reach a just conclusion that there is sufficient wrong for proceeding against the accused, summons should not be issued – Summoning order quashed.

Jan 8, 2023 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH DEEPAK GABA AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Sanjiv Khanna and J.K. Maheshwari, JJ.…

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Quashing of criminal complaint – gap of more than four years between the initial investigation and the filing of the complaint, and even after lapse of substantial amount of time, no evidence has been provided to sustain the claims in the complaint – law, must always ensure that frivolous cases do not pervert the sacrosanct nature of the law – Criminal complaint quashed

Dec 27, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH HASMUKHLAL D. VORA AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU — Respondent ( Before : Krishna Murari and S. Ravindra Bhat,…

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(CrPC) – Section 427 – there must be a specific direction or order by the court that the subsequent sentence to run concurrently with the previous sentence.rule is that where there are different transactions, different crime numbers and cases have been decided by the different judgments, concurrent sentence cannot be awarded under Section 427 Cr.P.C

Dec 26, 2022 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH IQRAM — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, CJI. and Pamidighantam Sri…

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