Date of the Judgment: 2 July 2013 Citation: 2013 INSC 495 Judges: Dr. B.S. Chauhan, Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, JJ. Can a statement recorded by a police officer under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 be considered a dying declaration? The Supreme Court of India recently addressed this question in a criminal […]
Date of the Judgment: July 2, 2013 Citation: 2013 INSC 476 Judges: Justice G.S. Singhvi, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, and Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde. Is a High Court judgment valid if it does not properly analyze the evidence in a criminal appeal? The Supreme Court recently addressed this question in a case where a man
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Date of the Judgment: July 1, 2013 Citation: (2013) INSC 429 Judges: Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice M.Y. Eqbal Can a conviction be upheld when key evidence is missing and the chain of events is incomplete? The Supreme Court of India recently addressed this question in a case involving a murder on a cargo ship.
Date of the Judgment: 29 May 2013 Citation: Bhadragiri Venkata Ravi vs. Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad, Criminal Appeal No.248 of 2007 Judges: Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J. and Dipak Misra, J. Can a conviction for murder be sustained when the primary evidence, the dying declarations of the deceased, are inconsistent? The Supreme Court
Date of the Judgment: May 10, 2013 Citation: 2013 INSC 354 Judges: G.S. Singhvi, J. and Ranjana Prakash Desai, J. Can a High Court reduce a rape sentence below the statutory minimum without providing specific reasons? The Supreme Court of India addressed this critical question in a recent case. The court emphasized that rape is
Date of the Judgment: May 8, 2013 Citation: 2013 INSC 368 Judges: Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J., Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, J. Can an eye-witness account alone be sufficient to convict a person for murder? The Supreme Court of India addressed this question in a criminal appeal, examining the reliability of an eye-witness and the corroborative
LEGAL ISSUE: The reliability and evidentiary value of multiple dying declarations. CASE TYPE: Criminal Law Case Name: State of Rajasthan vs. Shravan Ram & Anr. Judgment Date: May 1, 2013 Date of the Judgment: May 1, 2013 Citation: (2013) INSC 317 Judges: K.S. Radhakrishnan, J., Dipak Misra, J. Can a conviction be based solely on
LEGAL ISSUE: Whether a conviction can be solely based on a dying declaration, especially when there are minor discrepancies in multiple dying declarations. CASE TYPE: Criminal Law – Murder Case Name: Abrar vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh [Judgment Date]: 16th December 2010 Date of the Judgment: 16th December 2010 Citation: Not Available in the
LEGAL ISSUE: Whether a fatal injury inflicted during a sudden fight without premeditation constitutes murder or culpable homicide not amounting to murder. CASE TYPE: Criminal Law. Case Name: Sangh Araj Bhogappa Kamble vs. State of Maharashtra. Judgment Date: 26th October 2010 Introduction Date of the Judgment: 26th October 2010 Citation: 2010(13) SCR 376 Judges: Hon’ble
Did the High Court err in acquitting the accused in a decades-old murder case? The Supreme Court of India addressed this question in an appeal concerning a 1979 incident. The case hinged on the credibility of eyewitness testimonies and the presence of unexplained circumstances that cast doubt on the prosecution’s version of events. A three-judge
LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the act of chopping off a person’s leg constitutes an attempt to murder under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. CASE TYPE: Criminal Law Case Name: State of M.P. vs. Kashiram & Ors. Judgment Date: 2nd February 2009 Date of the Judgment: 2nd February 2009 Citation: 2009 INSC 191 Judges:
Date of the Judgment: September 22, 2008 Judges: S.B. Sinha, Harjit Singh Bedi Can a conviction for murder be upheld when the accused acted as part of an unlawful assembly, even if the common intention to commit murder wasn’t explicitly proven? The Supreme Court of India addressed this question in the case of Shankaraya Naik
