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Category: Cr P C

Cr P C

DEFAULT BAIL – HELD The provisions of the Code do not empower anyone to extend the period within which the investigation must be completed nor does it admit of any such eventuality. On the expiry of the said period of 90 days or 60 days, as the case may be, an indefeasible right accrues in favour of the accused for being released on bail on account of default by the investigating agency

Feb 4, 2020 sclaw

  1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1218 OF 2018 @ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO.6453 OF 2018 Achpal @ Ramswaroop &…

Cr P C

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) – Section 427 – Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) – Sections 34, 392, 394 and 397 – Robbery – Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence – Appellant is involved in sixteen criminal cases HELD Considering the report of the Probation Officer, illness of the mother of the appellant, his family background, facts and circumstances of the case and in the interest of justice, this is a fit case for exercising discretion in directing the sentence of imprisonment to run concurrently.

Feb 1, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH VICKY @ VIKAS — Appellant Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) — Respondent ( Before : R. Banumathi and A.S. Bopanna, JJ. )…

Cr P C

Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) Sections 420 and 120-B – Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 – Sections 13(1)(d) and 13(2) – Fake loan to relatives – . The respondents are beneficiary of the grant of cash credit limit when their father was the President of the Bank. The power under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 cannot be exercised where the allegations are required to be proved in court of law.

Feb 1, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH — Appellant Vs. YOGENDRA SINGH JADON AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta, JJ.…

Cr P C

Cheating – Quashing of proceedings – There are no such specific allegations against the appellants being Managing Director or the Director of the company respectively – It is required to be noted that though the FIR was filed in the year 2000 and the charge-sheet was submitted/filed as far back as on 28.5.2004, the appellants were served with the summons only in the year 2017, i.e., after a period of approximately 13 years from the date of filing the charge-sheet. QUASHED

Feb 1, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH SUSHIL SETHI AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Ashok Bhushan and M. R.…

Cr P C

Magistrate While Holding Inquiry U/s 202 CrPC Required To Take A Broad View And a Prima Facie Case: SC HELD criminal proceedings initiated are an abuse of process of law or the Court or not and/or whether the dispute is purely of civil nature or not and/or whether the civil dispute is tried to be given a colour of criminal dispute or not.

Feb 1, 2020 sclaw

  Magistrate While Holding Inquiry U/s 202 CrPC Required To Take A Broad View And a Prima Facie Case: SC [Read Judgment] LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK 31 Jan 2020 9:28 PM…

Cr P C

Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 – Sections 3 and 4 – Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) – Sections 406, 420 and 498A – Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) – Section 216 – Framing of additional charges – It is clear that Section 216 provides the court an exclusive and wide-ranging power to change or alter any charge

Jan 21, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH DR. NALLAPAREDDY SRIDHAR REDDY — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and…

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Cr P C

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 223(d) — Persons accused of different offences committed in the course of the same transaction may be charged and tried together — Legislative intent is to prevent multiplicity of proceedings, avoid conflicting judgments, and promote judicial economy while ensuring fairness — Segregation without legally recognized grounds like distinct facts, severable evidence, or demonstrated prejudice, is impermissible.

Sep 16, 2025 sclaw
Anticipatory Bail

Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 463, 465, 467, 468, 471, 474 read with Section 34 — Offences relating to cheating and forgery — Anticipatory bail — Rejection challenged — Appellants, public servants at the time, accused of certifying mutation entries based on forged documents — High Court rejected anticipatory bail — Supreme Court affirmed the High Court’s decision

Sep 16, 2025 sclaw
Constitution

Waqf Act, 1995 (as amended) — Challenge to constitutional validity of amendments — Petitioners contended that amendments are ultra vires the Constitution, violating fundamental rights including Articles 14, 15, 19, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 300A. Respondents argued for legislative competence and presumption of validity of enactments. Court emphasized that statutes should only be declared unconstitutional if there is a clear, glaring, and undeniable violation of constitutional principles or fundamental rights, or if manifestly arbitrary, and that courts must strive to uphold legislative validity.

Sep 16, 2025 sclaw
Consumer

Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 25 — Enforcement of orders — Pre-2002 amendment and post-2019 Act, all orders could be enforced as decrees. The period between 15.03.2003 to 20.07.2020 saw an anomaly where only interim orders (and monetary recovery) were clearly enforceable under Section 25, leaving final non-monetary orders in a gap. Interpretation of Statutes — Casus omissus — Court can fill gaps in legislation using interpretative tools like purposive construction when literal interpretation leads to absurdity or defeats the object of the Act, especially for remedial legislation like the Consumer Act.

Sep 2, 2025 sclaw