Category: Digest Of Supreme Court Cases

Evidence of child witness cannot be rejected merely because of her age being 12 yrs, but being a child witness, her evidence needs a very careful evaluation with greater circumspection…

The aforesaid provision is founded on the maxim, actus non reum facit nisi mens sit rea, i.e., an act does not constitute guilt unless done with a guilty intention. It…

In this case, held, conviction of all the eight accused persons based on evidence of the sole related eyewitness, held, justified, particularly when there is no vagueness in his testimony…

Apparently, the bar contained in Section 197 of the Code would not be attracted to the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the present case simply because the police officers had…

It so happened that before the seven days police custody is over and before the CBI exercises the power of interrogation for full seven days which as per the order…

Principles for imposition of death sentence, surveyed in detail. Practical guidelines framed for collection/collation of mitigating circumstances. This court in Bachan Singh had warned against categorising cases.96 Rejecting the contention…

Principles clarified relating to permissibility of cancellation of default bail on merits after submission of charge-sheet. Held, From the above, the law, which emerges is that mere filing of the…

Victim has a fundamental right of fair investigation and fair trial. Therefore, mere filing of the chargesheet and framing of the charges cannot be an impediment in ordering further investigation…

Instant case was filed to direct the government to find out original names of ‘ancient historical cultural religious places’, named after barbaric foreign invaders and publish the initial names of…

Writ petition maintainable on the ground that earlier judgment does not lay down the correct law-though the concept of finality of judgment has to be preserved, at the same time,…