Category: Digest Of Supreme Court Cases

Direction for quashing of proceedings, after conducting mini trial, not justified, because, while exercising powers of quashing, High Court has to consider only the nature of accusations and allegations in…

In this case, deceased was a taxi driver, who was strangulated to death by appellant-accused herein (original Accused 1) along with 4 co-accused, and after burying his dead body, they…

The allegations against the appellant had been that on 03.05.2009, he took his two sons, aged about 9 years and 6 years, to Haiderpur Canal, strangulated them, and threw the…

Held, Thus, criminal breach of trust would, inter alia, mean using or disposing of the property by a person who is entrusted with or otherwise has dominion. Such an act…

Law clarified relating to necessity of Deposit on or before the due date of employees’ contribution in terms of the EPF Act/Scheme and ESI Act/Regulations, etc., for claiming deduction. Scheme…

Principles clarified relating to approach to be adopted by the Court in FIR/investigation in PC Act/corruption cases. Held, to maintain probity in the system of governance as well as to…

Review petition re death sentence can be reheard even on procedural objections, including the mode and method of evidentiary proof, as the matter pertains to death sentence. “Normally in a…

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…

“In the present case, we find neither the chain of circumstances to have been completely established nor the guilt of the accused alone, having committed the crime to be proven,…

In this case, the High Court found one link in chain of circumstances to be missing and not proved. In a case of circumstantial evidence, the chain has to be…