Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Oct-17-2019
1 NONREPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). 1560 OF2019PREM SINGH APPELLANT(S) Versus SUKHDEV SINGH & OTHERS RESPONDENT(S) WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). 1561 OF2019JUDGMENT Deepak Gupta, J.These appeals by the victim as well as by the State are directed against the judgment dated 24.07.2013 whereby the High Court allowed the appeal of the accused and set aside the judgment of the trial court whereby the respondents herein were convicted for various offences punishable under Sections 148, 2 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC for short) and Section 25 of the Arms Act, and sentenced to various terms including life imprisonment.2. We do not intend to give detailed facts of the case. The gist of the case is that on 25.05.2005, accused Jagir Singh had caused injuries to Palwinder Kaur, who is the sisterinlaw of Prem Singh (PW1). Prem Singh (PW1) had gone to the milk chilling centre at Lopoke, because his father was contesting election...
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Decided on : Nov-07-2019
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1856 OF2013STATE OF UTTARAKHAND ... APPELLANT VERSUS DARSHAN SINGH ... RESPONDENT WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1857 OF2013JUDGMENT K.M. JOSEPH, J.1. Since these appeals involve the same impugned judgment of the High Court acquitting the respondents of offences under Section 147, 148, 149 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as the IPC, for short), we deem it fit to dispose of the same by a common judgment. 1 PROSECUTION CASE IN BRIEF2 The complaint in this case, which led to the trial, was lodged by one Swarn Singh-PW1. The complaint in brief is as follows: On 22.08.1992, when he, along with his father, mother and maternal uncle, were going on a tractor from Nanakmatta to their village and his father was driving the tractor, when the tractor reached one kilometre from their house, they found that a bullock cart has blocked their passage. The tractor stopped near the bullock...
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Decided on : Nov-14-2019
Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL/CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Review Petition (Crl.) No.46 of 2019 IN Writ Petition (Crl.) No.298 of 2018 YASHWANT SINHA & ORS. .Petitioners Versus .Respondents INTERVENTION APPLICATION, CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Through its DIRECTOR & ANR. (I.A. No.69008/2019 CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, I.A. No.69006/2019 I.A. No.71047/2019 PRODUCTION OF RECORDS and I.A. No.69009/2019 STAY APPLICATION) WITH MA582019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.225/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. No.182576/2018 CORRECTION OF MISTAKES IN THE JUDGMENT) R.P.(Crl.) No.122/2019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.297/2018 (PIL-W) 1 No.29248/2019 CRIMINAL INITIATING MA4032019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.298/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. PROCEEDINGS U/S340OF CRPC) R.P.(C) No.719/2019 in W.P.(C) No.1205/2018 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(Crl.) No.3/2019 in R.P.(Crl.) No.46/2019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.298/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. No.63168/2019 EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., I.A. No.71678/2019 EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and I.A. No.66253/2019 EXEMPTION FROM F...
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Decided on : May-07-2019
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.4666 OF2019(Arising out of S.L.P.(C) No.13571 of 2012) Arulmighu Nellukadai Mariamman Tirukkoil .Appellant(s) VERSUS Tamilarasi (Dead) By LRs. .Respondent(s) JUDGMENT Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.1. Leave granted.2. This appeal is filed against the final judgment and order dated 30.09.2011 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in Second Appeal No.365 of 2009 whereby the High Court allowed the said second appeal filed by the original respondent 1 herein and set aside the judgment and decree dated 08.12.2008 of the Subordinate Judge, Nagapattinam in A.S. No.30/2008 and dismissed the suit filed by the appellant herein.3. A few facts need mention hereinbelow for the disposal of this appeal, which involves a short question.4. This appeal is filed by the plaintiff, who succeeded in the Trial Court and the first Appellate Court but lost in second appeal filed by the defendant (original respondent herein...
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Decided on : May-10-2019
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1223 OF2015RAKESH TIWARI, ADVOCATE APPELLANT VERSUS ALOK PANDEY, C.J.M. RESPONDENT JUDGMENT ARUN MISHRA, J.1. The appellant, advocate, has been convicted for his undesirable conduct by the High Court vide impugned judgment and order under the Contempt of Courts Act and has been sentenced to simple imprisonment of six months and a fine of Rs.2000/- and in case of non-payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 15 days. He has also been directed not to enter the premises of the District Judgeship, Allahabad for a period of six months w.e.f. 15.7.2015 and the contemnor shall remain under constant watch of the District Judge, Allahabad, for a period of two years; and in case of any objectionable conduct, causing interference in peaceful and smooth functioning of the court, the District Judge has been asked to report the matter to the High Court.2. The contemnor has be...
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Decided on : May-10-2019
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.3934 OF2017RAM PARSHOTAM MITTAL & ORS. APPELLANTS VERSUS HOTEL QUEEN ROAD PVT. LTD. & ORS. RESPONDENTS WITH CIVIL APPEAL NO.3935 OF2017JUDGMENT ARUN MISHRA, J.1. The appeal arises out of the judgment dated 31.5.2013 passed by the High Court of Delhi, setting aside an order dated 31.1.2006 passed by the Company Law Board in Company Petition No.64/2005.2. The backdrop facts indicate that the Government of India took a policy decision on 5.7.2002 to disinvest its shares in the Indian Tourism Development Corporation (in short, the ITDC) which owns various hotel properties; one of them being Indraprastha Hotel, formerly known as Hotel Ashok Yatri Niwas, (hereinafter referred to as the hotel).3. In terms of an approved scheme of Arrangement of Demerger the hotel was transferred to the Respondent No.1 Hotel Queen Road Pvt. 2 Ltd. (in short, HQRL) which was created as a Special Purpose Vehicle to enable ...
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Decided on : Jul-03-2019
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal Nos 4605 - 4606 of 2019 (D No 27372/2015) Amit Kumar Roy ..Appellant VERSUS Union of India & Ors ..Respondents With Civil Appeal No 4607 of 2019 (D No 27196/2015) JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J Civil Appeal Nos 4605-4606 of 2019 (D No 27372/2015):1. These appeals arise from a decision of the Armed Forces Tribunal 1 dated 11 April 2012 together with its order dated 25 May 2012, declining to review the initial decision. 1 AFT22 The appellant was enrolled on 12 January 2004 as an Airman in the Indian Air Force2. His regular engagement was to come to an end on 11 January, 2024. An advertisement was issued by the Bank of India on 7 August 2010 inviting applications for filling up 2,000 posts of Probationary Officers. While posted at the Three Base Repair Depot, the appellant responded to the advertisement and applied for the post of General Banking Officer in the pay scale of Rs 14,500- 25,700 in A...
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Decided on : Jul-05-2019
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE/ ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS.140151 OF2012CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION & ANR. APPELLANTS VERSUS MOHD. PARVEZ ABDUL KAYUUM ETC. RESPONDENTS WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. 981982 OF2019(Arising out of Special Leave Petition Nos.90289029 of 2016) CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS.8394 OF2012CRIMINAL APPEAL No.983 OF2019(Arising out of Special Leave Petition No.5530 of 2017) AND WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO.26 OF2019JUDGMENT ARUN MISHRA, J.1. The facts, in short, envisage that initially two separate cases were registered by local Police relating to the murder of Mr. Haren Pandya, exHome Minister for the State of Gujarat on 26.3.2003 and an attempt on the life of Mr. Jagdish Tiwari, a Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader of Ahmedabad on 11.3.2003. The case of murder was 2 initially registered on the basis of a complaint brought by Mr. Janak Singh Parmar, vide FIR bearing IC.R. No.272/2003 at Ellisbridge Police Station, Ahmedabad, on ...
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Decided on : Jul-12-2019
NONREPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(s). 1890 OF2011PRATAP SINGH @ PIKKI ..Appellant(s) VERSUS STATE OF UTTARAKHAND ..Respondent(s) JUDGMENT Rastogi, J.1. The appellant(accused No.1) along with three others tried for an offence under Sections 147, 148, 302/149 and 323/149 of the Indian Penal Code(hereinafter being referred to as IPC). The appellant and one Vikas Kirola were convicted under Section 304 Part II/34 IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and other two persons Manoj Singh Rautela and 1 Deepak Pathak were acquitted vide judgment dated 12th January, 1998.2. Both the unsuccessful convicted persons preferred criminal appeal against the judgment dated 12th January, 1998 before the High Court of Uttarakhand. In the case of appellant, the High Court observed that according to his marksheet of Secondary School Certificate Examination 1993, his date of birth is 13th June, 1977 while the incident was o...
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Decided on : Jul-24-2019
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