Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B -- Criminal conspiracy - Mere circumstantial evidence to prove criminal conspiracy is not sufficient - A meeting of minds to form a criminal conspiracy has to be proved by placing substantive evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 300, 392 -- Robbery and murder - Accused allegedly committed robbery and murder of deceased and his wife - One of the accused working as domestic servant with the deceased when incident took place - No forced entry in house during night of incident - Brief case lying inside premises of co-accused opened with keys recovered from the accused..........
Circumstantial evidence -- Prosecution story that wife in pursuance to the conspiracy with her paramour took her husband to Delhi on the pretext of purchasing medicine and there she and her paramour strangulated him to death and threw his body on the railway track - The only eye witness of the incident is son of the deceased - If wife had planned murder of her husband, she..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B -- Criminal conspiracy - Entries in the diary clearly establish the act of conspiracy in vivid detail - No infirmity in impugned concurrent finding...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Accused mother in-law, father in-law and husband - Allegations that mother in-law poured kerosene oil and set deceased on fire - Complainant, uncle of deceased neither spoke about conspiracy nor any assistance being given by husband and father in-law to mother in-law - Allegations against mother in-law supported by dying..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B, 420, 468, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 13(2) -- Criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery - Prosecution allegation that accused allegedly in connivance with Forest Range Officer fabricated record concerning felling of Devdar trees and used more timber than permitted in construction of a hotel - Accused produced bills..........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 13(1)(e), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420, 120B -- Corruption case - Cheating - Criminal conspiracy - Accused alleged to have been entered into conspiracy with a private firm to avail credit facility to which firm was not entitled - Recovery suit filed by bank - Entire amount was re-paid by firm - FIR sought to be quashed on..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B -- Criminal conspiracy - It is an independent offence - It is punishable separately - Its ingredients are - (a) an agreement between two or more persons; (b) the agreement must relate to doing or causing to be done either - (i) an illegal act; (ii) an act which is not illegal in itself but is done by illegal means - Conspiracy is..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Criminal conspiracy - Quashing of charge sheet - When there is larger part of conspiracy or larger offence or offence is in larger perspective, then investigation can go on and the Court will not interfere in the matter...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Criminal conspiracy - Quashing of charge sheet - Court can refuse to interfere when there exists some link or factor connecting the charge of criminal conspiracy...........