Indian Penal Code Anjani Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh 2026 INSC 3 - IPC - Murder Case -Acquittal Read Judgment In LawLens Note You can read our notes on this judgment in our Supreme Court Daily Digests. If you are our subscriber, you should get it in our Whatsapp CaseCiter Community at about 9pm on every working day. If you are not our subscriber yet, you can register
Indian Penal Code Maram Nirmala vs State of Telangana - 2025 INSC 1496 - S.498A IPC - Quashing Note You can read our notes on this judgment in our Supreme Court Daily Digests. If you are our subscriber, you should get it in our Whatsapp CaseCiter Community at about 9pm on every working day. If you are not our subscriber yet, you can register by clicking here: Code
Indian Penal Code Belide Swagath Kumar v. State of Telangana & Anr., 2025 INSC 1471 - S.498A IPC - Financial Dominance Of Husband - Lack Of Care Read Judgment In LawLens Note You can read our notes on this judgment in our Supreme Court Daily Digests. If you are our subscriber, you should get it in our Whatsapp CaseCiter Community at about 9pm on every working day. If you are not our subscriber yet, you can register
Indian Penal Code Jeyasingh v. State 2025 INSC 1422 - S.304 IPC Read Judgment In LawLens Note You can read our notes on this judgment in our Supreme Court Daily Digests. If you are our subscriber, you should get it in our Whatsapp CaseCiter Community at about 9pm on every working day. If you are not our subscriber yet, you can register
Indian Penal Code Surender Kumar v. State of Himachal Pradesh; 2025 INSC 1412 - S.300 IPC - Exception 2 & 4 - Fight Read Judgment In LawLens Note You can read our notes on this judgment in our Supreme Court Daily Digests. If you are our subscriber, you should get it in our Whatsapp CaseCiter Community at about 9pm on every working day. If you are not our subscriber yet, you can register
Criminal Ashraf v. State of Karnataka; 2025 INSC 1394- S.304A IPC Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 304A - Partly allowing appeal, Supreme Court converted punishment to one of imprisonment till the rising of the Court with a total fine of Rs.1,31,000. Case Info Case Details * Case name: Ashraf v. State of Karnataka * Neutral citation: 2025 INSC 1394
Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Tuhin Kumar Biswas @ Bumba vs State of West Bengal; 2025 INSC 1373 - Civil Disputes - Criminal Cases Read Judgment In LawLens Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 227,228 - Principles to be kept in mind by the Court while deciding an application seeking discharge - At the stage of discharge, a strong suspicion suffices. However, a strong suspicion must be found on some material which
Indian Penal Code Yogendra Pal Singh v. Raghvendra Singh Alias Prince 2025 INSC 1367 - Dowry Death - Bail Read Judgment In LawLens Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 304B - Dowry death - Dowry death is not merely an offence against an individual but a crime against society at large- The evil of dowry, though often sought to be camouflaged as gifts or voluntary offerings, has in reality
Indian Penal Code Inder Chand Bagri v. Jagadish Prasad Bagri 2025 INSC 1350 - IPC - Cheating - Breach Of Trust Read Judgment In LawLens Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 415,420 -For establishing the offence of cheating, the complainant is required to show that the appellant-accused had a fraudulent or dishonest intention at the time of making a promise or representation of not fulfilling the partnership agreement. Such a
Indian Penal Code Samadhan Sitatram Manmothe v. State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1351 - Rape Cases -Promise Of Marriage Read Judgment In LawLens Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 -Physical intimacy that occurred during the course of a functioning relationship cannot be retrospectively branded as instances of offence of rape merely because the relationship failed to culminate in marriage -Failed or broken relationships are given the colour of
Indian Penal Code Prashant Prakash Ratnaparki v. State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1323 - IPC/BNS - Dacoity Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 378, 392,395 [Sections 303, 309,310 BNS] - To sustain a charge of dacoity under Section 310(2) of the BNS [Section 395 of the IPC], the offence of robbery [Section 309 of the BNS/Section 392 of the IPC] must first be
Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Chhotelal Yadav v. State of Jharkhand - CrPC/BNSS- Suspension Of Sentence - IPC/BNS - Unlawful Assembly Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 389 :: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 -Section 430- Ordinarily, if the sentence is for a fixed term, the court may exercise its discretion leniently in suspending such sentence of fixed term, pending the final disposal of the Criminal Appeal of the convict. Even
Indian Penal Code Nandkumar @ Nandu Manilal Mudaliar v. State of Gujarat 2025 INSC 1302 - Murder - Culpable Homicide Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 299-304 - Allowing appeal against conviction in a murder case, SC observed: Looking to the kind and nature of injuries which is available from the medical evidence, it could not be said that the injuries were not of the nature which were sufficient to
Indian Penal Code Yadwinder Singh @ Sunny v. State of Punjab - S.306 IPC - Refusal To Marry - Abetment Of Suicide Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 306, 107 - Mere refusal to marry even if true by itself would not amount to instigation as explained under Section 107 of the IPC- The ingredients to constitute an offence under Section 306 of the IPC would stand fulfilled if the suicide is
Indian Penal Code G. Prasad Raghavan v. Union Territory of Puducherry; 2025 INSC 1221 - S.406,420 IPC Acquittal Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 406,420- While acquitting the appellant, SC observed: When the transaction took place between the informant and original accused no. 1 in the year 2015-2016, the appellant was minor, hence ingredients of offences punishable under Section 406 and 420 of the IPC read with
Indian Penal Code Haribhau @ Bhausaheb Dinkar Kharuse vs State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1266 - S.149 IPC- Unlawful Assembly - Specific Overt Act Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 149 - It is not necessary for each member of the unlawful assembly to have committed a specific overt act. Once participation and sharing of the common object are proved, every member becomes vicariously liable for offences committed in prosecution of that object. [Context:
Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 State of Kerala v. Suni @ Sunil 2025 INSC 1260 - S.195A IPC - FIR - Witness Threatening Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 195A ; Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Section 195,195A [Section 232 BNS ; Section 215, 216 BNSS]- The offence under Section 195A IPC is a cognizable offence the process of criminal law can as well be set in motion by giving information of
Indian Penal Code Raghav Prashad vs State of U.P 2025 INSC 1172 - Murder Case - Converted To S.304 IPC Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 302,304- While partly allowing appeal of accused, SC observed: Though the accused persons could be said to have the knowledge that the injuries would cause death of the deceased, there is no material on record to show that they had the intention to
Indian Penal Code Varun Kumar Alias Sonu v. State of Himachal Pradesh 2025 INSC 1232 - Rape - Minor's Consent Immaterial Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 - SC upholds a rape conviction and observed: Medical evidence does not rule out the possibility of rape upon the victim. Even assuming that the victim had wilfully volunteered to sexual intercourse, this aspect becomes immaterial, as the victim was a minor on
Criminal Trial Dashwanth vs The State Of Tamil Nadu 2025 INSC 1203 - Death Sentence Acquittal - Constitutional Rights Of Accused To Defend Himself Criminal Trial - The constitutional right afforded to an accused charged with an offence to defend himself is not illusory or imaginary. For the trial to be fair and reasonable, an effective opportunity to defend must be provided to the accused and representation by a counsel of choice is an
Indian Penal Code Zainul vs State of Bihar 2025 INSC 1192 - S. 149 IPC - Unlawful Assembly - FIR Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC) - Section 149 - Where there are general allegations against a large number of persons, the court must remain very careful before convicting all of them on vague or general evidence. Therefore, the courts ought to look for some cogent and credible material that lends
Indian Penal Code Sanjay D. Jain vs State of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 1168 - S.498A IPC - S.482 CrPC - Cruelty Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 498A - The requirement is that there has to be cruelty inflicted against the victim which either drives her to commit suicide or cause grave injury to herself or lead to such conduct that would cause grave injury or danger to life, limb or
Indian Penal Code Arshad Neyaz Khan v. State of Jharkhand 2025 INSC 1151 - IPC - Cheating - Criminal Breach Of Trust Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 420 - For establishing the offence of cheating, the complainant is required to show that the accused had a fraudulent or dishonest intention at the time of making a promise or representation of not fulfilling the agreement for sale of the said property. Such
Indian Penal Code Shobhit Kumar Mittal v. State of Uttar Pradesh 2025 INSC 1152- S.498A IPC - Cruelty - General Allegations Of Harassment Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 498A - The term “cruelty” cannot be established without specific instances. The tendency of invoking the aforesaid provisions, without mentioning any specific detail, weakens the case of the prosecution and casts serious aspersions on the probability of the version of the complainant. Therefore, this
Indian Penal Code Thammineni Bhaskar v. State of Andhra Pradesh 2025 INSC 1124 - Concurrent Murder Conviction Set Aside Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 302 - Concurrent conviction of murder accused set aside- No legal aspects discussed in the judgment. Case Info Case Name and Neutral Citation * Case Name: Thammineni Bhaskar v. State of Andhra Pradesh * Neutral Citation: 2025 INSC 1124 Coram (Judges) * Justice Pankaj Mithal * Justice Prasanna
