Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Allegations made against accused are of trivial in nature which generally took place in every house - Even if the entire allegations are accepted, it cannot be presumed that there was any instigation on the part of accused - No case is made out warranting prosecution of accused - Accused discharged...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 324, 34 -- Anticipatory bail - Attempt to murder - Investigation of case is still going on and I.O is yet to file the charge sheet - Accused is a young person who is a student and he had agreed to bind himself with any conditions fit to be imposed by Court - Anticipatory bail granted with..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 489B, 489C -- Counterfeit currency notes - Accused and their companion children were in possession of 139 notes of Rs.1000 and 168 notes of Rs.500 denominations - One among them was proved to have attempted to transact a Rs.1000 counterfeit note - Accused did not offer any explanation for possession of such quantity of counterfeit notes -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 489B, 489C -- Counterfeit currency notes - Modification of sentence - Sentence imposed is 10 years R.I. - Term of sentence imposed for the offence u/ss 489-B, 120-B IPC are exorbitant - Sentence modified to R.I for 7 years u/ss 489-B, 120-B IPC - Sentence u/s 489-C IPC and default sentences and fine are same - Terms of substantive sentence..........
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 8, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354B, 448 -- Sexual assault - Mother of victim corroborated the contents of written complaint and she stated that victim narrated the whole incident to her and thereafter she also narrated the same to her husband - Alleged sexual assault could not be disputed in spite of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(n), 354D, 504, 506, 34, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(1)(w)(i), 3(2)(v), 3(2)(va) -- Rape - Quashing of proceedings - Initial version of prosecutrix that accused committed rape upon her and she became pregnant and accused caused her abortion for which she was..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 397, 395 -- Offence u/ss 397, 395 IPC - Identification of accused - PW1 identified the accused by seeing them at police station - No identification parade was conducted - Identification of accused for the first time in Court thus, cannot be said to be free from doubt - Conviction and sentence set aside - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 397, 395 -- Offence u/ss 397, 395 IPC - Recovery of iron rod - Iron rod is an article which could be found anywhere - It is not the case of prosecution that any stolen article was recovered from accused - Recovery is doubtful - Accused acquitted...........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 2(c), Banking Regulation Act, 1949, Section 460A, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 21 -- Public servant - Managing Director and Executive Director of a banking company operating under licence issued by Reserve Bank of India, are public servants, as such they cannot be excluded from definition of `public servant'...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304(Part II) -- Nature of offence - Accused came to house, picked up quarrel with deceased, beat her, poured kerosene oil upon her and set her on fire - However, when deceased raised cries, accused immediately pushed her into a water tub to put off the flames and in that process he suffered 20% burns - Incident occurred in the heat of..........
