Poverty should not be allowed to become a crime. Neither failed marriage be permitted to be a crime...
This Court cannot analyze the entire evidence to come to conclusion whether a conviction is probable or not, that, in fact, would amount to by passing the Trial Court and not giving an opportunity to the prosecution to prove its ca..
It was held in AIR 1996(Supreme Court) 67 that taunting for not bringing sufficient dowry is distinct from demand of dowry and should not be confused with. Though taunting for bringing insufficient dowry is also an uncivilized act but does not come w..
Classic case in Quashing FIR..
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Section 24(6)--State Government whether bound to appoint Public Prosecutors and Additional Public Prosecutors only from among persons con- stituting such 'regular cadre of prosecuting Officers'--Interpretation of...
Held: "In the matter of exercising discretion of anticipatory bail under Section 438, Cr. P.C. the persons who fall in the category of Government servants, minors, women, old and infirm persons, handicapped persons, persons having permanent disabil..
There is no question of appellate court travelling beyond and making observations alien to the case. Any opinion, observation, comment or recommendation de hors the subject of the appeal, may lead to confusion in the minds of litigants, members of pu..
Revision against summoning order or legally maintainable and is not barrid under sub section 2 of section 397 cr.p.c. ..
An FIR was registered on 23.3.1996 on the statement of one Prakashi Devi. She stated that on the night of 22/23.3.1996, while she and her daughter-in-law Sheela Devi were sleeping in her house, around 11.30 PM, the appellant jumped over the front wal..
The prosecution case is that Inspector Harvinder Singh, Station House Officer, Police Station, Civil Lines, Amritsar, alongwith other officials including Balwinder Singh, ASI, Tarsem Singh, Constable, Bikram Singh, Constable, happened to be present a..
Both the trial court and the High Court have concluded that the deceased was killed due to political vendetta. The conclusions reached by the two Courts do not seem to be without basis. The High Court has noticed that there were many political murder..
If in a case like the present one the court find that the appellants could not invoke its jurisdiction under Article 226, the court can certainly treat the petition one under Article 227 or Section 482 of the Code...
We have heard the learned counsel for the parties and gone through the impugned judgments. We see that the High Court and trial court had found that the seven appellants were involved in the incident. The learned counsel for the appellants has, howev..
The learned counsel for the appellant has, first and foremost, pointed out that there was no reason whatsoever to disbelieve PW1 and PW2 as they were eye witnesses to the incident and also the closest relatives of the deceased. It has been further po..
The case of the prosecution was that, Shaminabee, since deceased, was married to one Shaikh Sattar (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) about four years before the fateful incident. Sk. Hasham (hereinafter referred to as A2) was the father-in-l..
These two appeals have been filed against the common judgment of the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam dated 28.6.2004 in Criminal Appeal No. 432 of 2003 and Criminal Appeal No. 873 of 2003 whereby the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the app..
Facts and circumstances giving rise to the present appeal are that Mohd. Qureshi, one of the respondents, lodged a complaint dated 8.11.2005 with Deputy Commissioner of Police, CID (Unit III) against the Arun Gulab Gawali gang. The said complaint was..
Facts and circumstances giving rise to the present cases are that on 7.7.2008, some altercation took place between members of the Bharwad and the Koli Patel communities over the plying of rickshaws in the area surrounding Dhedhal village of Distt. Ah..
All these matters have been filed by the persons aggrieved by the Judgment and order of the High Court of Gujarat dated 22.12.2009 in connected cases. The detailed judgment and order has been passed today i.e. on 26.8.2010 in Criminal Appeal No.1599 ..
Challenging the preventive detention under COFEPOSA under section 3 (1) COFEPOSA...