Category - Latest Judgments

Latest Judgments of Supreme Court

V. Shantha v. State of Telangana and Ors.

Criminal Law — Preventive Detention — Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Dacoits, Drug Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Land Grabbers Act, 1986 — S. 2(a) — Detention order — Seriousness...

Shahajan Ali & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra Etc.

Criminal Law — Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 — Conviction under — Sudden fight caused murder — Held, in the instant case, there was neither prior concert nor common intention to commit murder — Exception 4 to S. 300 is...

Anjan Kumar Sarma & Ors. v. State of Assam

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Circumstantial evidence — Suspicion — As legal proof — Suspicion held, cannot take place of legal proof for sometimes, unconsciously it may happen to be a short step between moral certainty and...

Chandrasekar and another v. State

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Witnesses — Injured witness — Testimony of — Weightage — Held, criminal jurisprudence attaches great weightage to the evidence of a person injured in the same occurrence as it presumes that he...

Karmanya Singh Sareen and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.

It is submitted by Ms. Madhavi Divan, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners that Mr. Harish Salve, learned senior counsel who had assured this Court to argue the matter today is busy before the International Court of...