Prevention of Corruption Act – Demand and Acceptance of Illegal Gratification – Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) PC Act – Accused Police Constable posted at Aya Nagar Check Post demanded and accepted Rs. 1,000/- as illegal gratification from the informant Narender Kumar for returning his identity card confiscated during a police checking on the intervening night of 26.07.1...
NDPS Act – Default Bail – Charge-Sheet Without FSL/Chemical Analysis Report – Sections 8(c), 22(c) and 29 NDPS Act – Section 187(3) BNSS / Section 167(2) CrPC – Applicant arrested in connection with recovery of 160 grams of Mephedrone (MD) of commercial quantity – Charge-sheet filed on 21.01.2026 without the Chemical Analysis report, though the said report was p...
Matrimonial Law – Interim Maintenance – Section 125 CrPC – Writ under Article 227 – Petition Dismissed – Husband challenged the Family Court's order awarding Rs. 20,000/- per month as interim maintenance to the wife, contending that the wife was independently employed earning over Rs. 40,000/- per month and that he himself was unemployed following retrenchment &nd...
Bail — Cancellation — Subsequent Offence — Section 480(3) BNSS — Applicability — M.P. Excise Act, 1915 — Section 34(2) — The High Court cancelled bail granted to the appellant in connection with Crime No. 388 of 2024 registered at Police Station Kannod, District Dewas, solely on the ground of his involvement in a repeated offence under Section 34(2) of the...
Anticipatory Bail – Cyber Fraud – Economic Offence – Large-Scale Conspiracy – Dismissed – Petitioner sought anticipatory bail in connection with a cyber crime case involving fake investment schemes, digital arrest scams and other cyber frauds allegedly defrauding over 1,000 victims across India involving proceeds of approximately Rs.315 crores – Petitioner alleg...
Criminal Law — Circumstantial Evidence — Murder Conviction — Acquittal of Accomplices — Appellants, accused nos. 2 and 4 in the trial, were convicted along with two co-accused for the abduction and murder of the deceased Bebakka and destruction of her body by burning in Mullur forest — Prosecution's case rested on: motive attributable to accused no. 1 (financial d...
Bail – Unlawful Assembly – Attack on Police Station – Long Abscondence – Petitioner, arrayed as the 41st accused, allegedly part of an unlawful assembly of approximately three hundred persons that pelted granite stones at police officers and caused damage of Rs. 75,000/- to the Police Station building on 01.08.2012 – Petitioner absconded after the incident and remaine...
Criminal Law – Attempt to Murder – Section 307 IPC – Acquittal – Appellant Keshav Singh @ Kallu convicted by the III Additional Sessions Judge, Mainpuri for firing a gunshot at informant Rajendra Singh on 04.12.1980, which caused gun shot injuries to Shiv Kumar Singh who was standing nearby – Role of exhortation attributed to deceased co-accused Brijbasi Lal – S...
NDPS Act – Recovery of Poppy Straw – Acquittal – Prosecution story based on secret information received by Investigating Officer PW-17 at Bhugrani Chowk, followed by search of the house of appellant Angrejo Devi, yielding 16 bags of alleged contraband in the presence of both appellants – Trial Court convicted both appellants under Section 15 of the NDPS Act and sentenced th...
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 – Section 138 – Dishonour of Cheque – Presumption under Sections 118(a) and 139 – Rebuttal – Petitioner convicted for dishonour of cheque of Rs.15,00,000/- issued in discharge of a loan – Petitioner's defence that the cheque was given as security in a chit fund transaction rejected as unsupported by cogent evidence – No...