Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 489A, 489B, 489C, 489D -- Recovery of counterfeit currency notes and printing apparatus and material from accused in pursuance to disclosure statement - Currency notes were not in casual possession of the accused having obtained in routine manner from any other person during the course of commercial transaction - Accused failed to explain..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Dowry death - Subjecting woman to cruelty and abetting her suicide in matrimonial home - Absence of complaint against accused by parents of deceased - No evidence of neighbours who participated in inquest proceedings - Police filed case as case of unnatural death and after seven days converted case as one u/ss 498-A, 306 IPC -..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 173, 149, 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Valid driving licence - Driver having a valid driving licence to drive motor car - Statement of driver that he does not know how to drive a jeep or car - Tribunal rightly held that this statement seems to be made at the instance of the Insurance Company otherwise there was hardly any reason for..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 489A, 489C -- Accused sitting in a bus and beneath the seat a plastic bag containing fake currency notes recovered and seized - During trial it was not proved as to exactly from which place of the bus the seized material was found - No evidence to show that the plastic bag was carried by accused and it was kept by him at a particular place..........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 7, 13(1)(d), 13(2) -- Appellant head constable - Convicted for having demanded and accepting bribe - Status of complainant - Not better than that of an accomplice as he is already prejudiced with the accused - It is desirable to have an independent corroboration of the statement of an accomplice - Thus the shadow witnesses should..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 326 -- Appellant assaulted informant on his belly by means of a knife, due to which informant received bleeding injury - Statement of informant fully corroborated by his wife as well as by medical evidence - Held, conviction of appellant u/s 326 IPC proper...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Dying declaration - Court if satisfied after careful scrutiny that it is true and free from any effort to induce the deceased to make a false statement and if the same were to inspire full confidence, coherence and consistency, there is no legal impediment to form such dying declaration the basis of conviction even in the absence of..........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 12 -- Amendment of application filed u/s 12 of the Act - Proceedings under the Act are quasi civil in nature - Court has power to allow amendment of application and written statement...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Witnesses not examined immediately at the time of inquest or thereafter - The mere fact that they were not examined during the inquest is of no consequence - It is nobody's case that they were present at the time of inquest and yet their statement was not recorded by the IO...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 207 -- Supply of copies to accused when proceedings are instituted on a police report free of cost viz. (i) The police report; (ii) The first information report recorded u/s 154 Cr.P.C. (iii) Statement recorded u/s 161(3) Cr.P.C.; (iv) The confessions and statements, if any, recorded under section 164; (v) Any other document or..........
