Indian Penal Code, 1860
Repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still governs matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides, which is why the judgments below apply it.
3956 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.
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Sheikh Javed Iqbal @ Ashfaq Ansari @ Javed Ansari v. State of Uttar Pradesh
High Court whether justified in denying bail to the appellant, an under-trial prisoner prosecuted under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 and Penal Code, 1860 who had been in custody for more than nine years.
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Kiran Jyot Maini v. Anish Pramod Patel
Long-standing separation between the parties, multiple prolonged litigations pending adjudication, several failed attempts at reconciliation. Issue was as regards interim maintenance however, in view of irretrievable break down…
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Shailendra Kumar Srivastava v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Ten persons were arrayed as accused and after investigation, a charge sheet was filed under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 302 IPC alleging indiscriminate shooting and/or conspiracy leading to death of two persons and injury of one…
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Baba Natarajan Prasad v. M. Revathi
Whether the High Court had shown undeserving leniency and sympathy to accused Nos.1 and 2 by sentencing them to undergo imprisonment till the rising of the court and to pay a fine of Rs.20,000/- each, even after finding that they…
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Ram Prakash Chadha v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
In the chargesheet, appellant was accused for commission of offences u/ss. 302, 343, 217, 218, 330, 120B and 34, IPC. An application for discharge u/s. 227 of Cr.PC was rejected by the Trial Court. Whether the findings of the…
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Arvind Kejriwal v. Directorate of Enforcement
Validity of arrest of the appellant under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002; scope and ambit of the Courts to examine the legality of the arrest under Section 19; whether the Court while examining the…
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Rohini Sudarshan Gangurde v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
Whether the alleged conduct of the appellant-accused in the nature of marital disputes attracts s.306 IPC read with s.107 IPC.
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Ratnu Yadav v. The State of Chhattisgarh
Whether the Courts below erred in convicting appellant u/s.302, IPC for committing the murder of his stepmother by relying upon the alleged extra-judicial confession of appellant before PW1 and ‘last seen together’ evidence of…
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Gaurav Maini v. The State of Haryana
Courts below, if justified in convicting and sentencing the appellants for the offences punishable u/ss. 364A, 392 and 120B IPC.
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Vinod Jaswantray Vyas (Dead) Through Lrs v. The State of Gujarat
The instant appeal is directed against the judgment dated 13.02.2017 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court, whereby, the Division Bench partly accepted the appeal preferred by the appellant accused-A1 and altered his…
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Lal Mohammad Manjur Ansari v. The State of Gujrat
Conviction and sentence of the appellant for offence punishable u/s. 302 IPC, if justified.
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P. Sasikumar v. The State Rep. by the Inspector of Police
High Court, if justified in upholding the conviction of the appellant u/s. 302/34 as well as u/ss. 449, 404 and 201 r/w 302 IPC, in absence of test identification parade, where accused is a stranger to a witness and the trial…
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Vishwanatha v. The State of Karnataka by the Secretary,
High Court reversing the order of acquittal found the appellant along with co-accused (now deceased) guilty of offences under Sections 302 and 450 read with Section 34 of Penal Code, 1860 and sentenced them. In view of doubt as…
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Naresh Kumar v. State of Delhi
Non-questioning the appellant convicted u/s.302 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 on the twin incriminating circumstances during his examination u/s.313, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, if caused material prejudice to him vitiating…
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Shiv Pratap Singh Rana v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr.
The prosecutrix had lodged an FIR u/s. 376(2)(n) and s.506 of IPC on 06.09.2018 against the appellant. The charges u/s. 376(2) (n) and s.506 of IPC were framed against the appellant and the application for discharge filed by the…
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Dharmendra Kumar @ Dhamma v. State of Madhya Pradesh
High Court if justified in upholding conviction and sentence of the appellant under ss. 302/34 IPC; the contradictions or discrepancies and the absence of blood group classification or inconclusive FSL results on the recovered…
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Surender Singh v. State (NCT of Delhi)
Correctness of the order of the High Court upholding the conviction and sentence of the appellant for offences under ss. 302 and 307 IPC .
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Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra and Another
High Court whether justified in denying bail to the appellant, an under-trial prisoner prosecuted under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and Penal Code, 1860.
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Agency Chennai Branch v. Barakathullah etc.
The respondents-accused were arrested for the alleged offences under section 120(b), 153(A), 153(AA) of IPC and Section 13, 17, 18, 18(B), 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1957. The High Court released the…
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National Investigation Agency New Delhi v. Owais Amin @ Cherry & Ors.
Applicability of Section 196-A of Code of Criminal Procedure SVT., 1989 vis-à-vis the provisions and mandate contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
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United India Insurance Co. Ltd. v. M/S Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. & Ors.
Matter pertains to the correctness of the decision by the National Commission which directed the appellant-insurer to release and pay an insurance claim to the respondent-contractor for the collapse of the bridge.
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Prabir Purkayastha v. State (NCT of Delhi)
Whether the arrest and subsequent remand of the accused-appellant was vitiated as the copy of the remand application was not provided to him or his counsel before passing of the order of remand thus, not informing him of the…
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Rajendra S/o Ramdas Kolhe v. State of Maharashtra
By the judgment and order dated 15.11.2010, the High Court relied upon the written dying declaration of the deceased Ex. 59 recorded by PW-6 and also the oral dying declarations of the deceased made before PW-2, PW-3, PW-4, PW-7…
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C. Subbiah @ Kadambur Jayaraj and Others v. The Superintendent of Police and Others
Matter pertains to the permissibility of suing the accused for a civil wrong, in relation to the benami transactions, as a corollary, allowing criminal prosecution of the accused in relation to the same cause of action.
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Arvind Kejriwal v. Directorate of Enforcement
Whether the Appellant is entitled to grant of interim bail/release during the pendency of the Appeal challenging his arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement, on account of an intervening factor i.e. 18th Lok Sabha General…
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Rajendra Bhagwanji Umraniya v. State of Gujarat
Respondents herein were convicted by the Sessions Court for offence punishable u/s. 325 IPC and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of five years. However, the High Court reduced the sentence of five years to four…
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Selvamani v. The State Rep. By The Inspector of Police
Appellant was one of the five accused persons who were found guilty of committing the offence of gang rape and was convicted under Section 376(g) and 506(1) of Penal Code, 1860 and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of…
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Sukhpal Singh v. NCT of Delhi
Appellant was convicted u/s.302, Penal Code, 1860 for the murder of his wife. Courts below whether justified in holding that the statement of Complainant-PW-1 recorded in proceedings u/s.299, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973…
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Alauddin & Ors. v. The State of Assam & Anr.
Matter pertains to correctness of the order convicting the appellants for the offences punishable u/ss. 302/149 IPC when the statements in evidence full of omissions and contradictions and the evidence of last seen theory and…
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Anees v. The State Govt. of NCT
Murder of appellant-accused’s wife in their house in which the appellant, deceased and their 5 year old daughter lived. s.106, Evidence Act, 1872 was invoked and the appellant was convicted u/s.302, IPC for the murder. Whether…
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Achin Gupta v. State of Haryana & Anr.
The appellant herein was chargesheeted u/ss.323, 406, 498A and 506 of IPC. The appellant filed a quashing petition for the purpose of getting the criminal proceedings quashed. The High Court by its impugned order, declined to…
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Sharif Ahmed and Another v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another
Nature of chargesheets filed in some jurisdictions by the State/ Police, without stating sufficient details of the facts constituting the offense or putting the relevant evidence on record; significance of chargesheets for taking…
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Association for Democratic Reforms v. Election Commission of India and Another
Petitioners sought directions for re-introduction of the paper ballot system; or that the printed slip from the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine be given to the voter to verify, and put in the ballot box, for…
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The State of Odisha v. Nirjharini Patnaik @ Mohanty & Anr.
Chargesheet was filed against the Respondents in an FIR filed alleging a widespread conspiracy involving forgery of documents to facilitate the illegal transfer of valuable government land to private entities. SDJM, Bhubaneshwar…
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Aniruddha Khanwalkar v. Sharmila Das & Others
Whether it is sufficient to make out prima facie case on the basis of allegations for summoning of the accused.
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Rahul Kumar Yadav v. The State of Bihar
The issue for consideration was challenge to the conviction of the Petitioner under Section 302 and 394 IPC on the ground that the courts below erred in not considering the Petitioner’s plea of juvenility on the date of…
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Leonard Xavier Valdaris v. Jitendra Ramnayaran Rathod & Ors.
Whether a Single Judge of the High Court can disagree with an earlier order of a Single Judge based on the same set of facts and one trial, and give a conflicting order.
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Ramayan Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Whether the High Court appropriately exercised its discretion under Section 439 of the CrPC while granting bail to the accused persons.
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Babu Sahebagouda Rudragoudar and Others v. State of Karnataka
Whether the High Court was justified in deciding the appeal as a first Court on independent appreciation of evidence and recording its own findings to hold the accused appellants (A-1, A-2 and A-3) guilty of charge u/s. 302 r/w.…
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Dolly Rani v. Manish Kumar Chanchal
When the marriage ceremony had not been performed in accordance with section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, whether registration of such a marriage under section 8 of the 1955 Act would confer any legitimacy to it.