Judgments - INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860

There is thus neither any proximate nor remote acts of omission or commission on the part of the appellant and his family members that can be irrefutably construed to be a direct or indirect cause or factor compelling Surjit and her daughters to take the extreme step of self-elimination. It is thus manifest that the offence punishable is one of abetment of the commission of suicide by any person, predicating existence of a Full Judgment

Tags Abetment Acquittal

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

GURPAL SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

Appeal (Crl.), 1145 of 2016, Judgment Date: Dec 02, 2016

Further, having regard to the root cause of the incident and the events that sequentially unfolded thereafter, we are of the comprehension that the appellant was overpowered by an uncontrollable fit of anger somuch so that he was deprived of his power of self-control and being drawn in a web of action reflexes, fired at the deceased and the injured, who were within his sight. The facts do not commend to Full Judgment

Tags Acquittal Attempt To Murder Murder

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

KHOKAN GIRI @ MADHAB Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

Appeal (Crl.), 1399 of 2007, Judgment Date: Dec 01, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Murder

Madhya Pradesh High Court (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

Veena Vadini D.Ed College Prithvipur Distt. Tikamgarh Vs National Council For The Teacher Education

WRIT PETITION, 19914 of 2014, Judgment Date: Dec 01, 2016

Full Judgment

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

MUKARRAB ETC Vs. STATE OF U.P.

Appeal (Crl.), 1119-1120 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 30, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Conviction Murder

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

RAM AUTAR & ORS Vs. STATE OF UP

Appeal (Crl.), 1157 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 28, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Murder

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

MOHD HASHIM Vs. STATE OF UP AND OTHERS

Appeal (Civil), 1218 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 28, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Cruelty Dowry

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

ANJAN DAS GUPTA Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.

Appeal (Crl.), 298 of 2006, Judgment Date: Nov 25, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Acquittal Murder

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

STATE OF BIHAR Vs. RAJBALLAV PRASAD @ RAJBALLAV PD. YADAV @ RAJBALLABH YADAV

Appeal (Crl.), 1141 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 24, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Rape Sexual Offences

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

RAMESH AND ORS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

Appeal (Crl.), 2526 of 2014, Judgment Date: Nov 22, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Conviction Cruelty Murder Dying Declaration

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

K.V. PRAKASH BABU Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA

Appeal (Crl.), 1138-1139 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 22, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Acquittal Cruelty Murder Dowry

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

HARPAL SINGH @ CHHOTA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

Appeal (Crl.), 2539 of 2014, Judgment Date: Nov 21, 2016

Full Judgment

Tags Conviction

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

BAIJNATH AND ORS Vs. STATE OF M P

Appeal (Crl.), 1097 of 2016, Judgment Date: Nov 18, 2016

(38) A cumulative consideration of the overall evidence on the facet of dowry, leaves us unconvinced about the truthfulness of the charge qua the accused persons. The prosecution in our estimate, has failed to prove this indispensable component of the two offences beyond reasonable doubt. The factum of unnatural death in the matrimonial home and that too within seven years of marriage therefore is thus ipso facto not sufficient to Full Judgment

Tags Acquittal Benefit Of Doubt Cruelty Dowry Death

Allahabad High Court (Single Judge)