Indian Penal Code

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Criminal Law

2025 INSC 140 Ajai Kumar Chauhan vs State Of Uttar Pradesh - Murder Conviction Modified To S 304 IPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 300 - Concurrent murder conviction - Allowing appeal, SC observed: The possibility of the incident occurring in the spur of the moment and the appellant assaulting the deceased on account of sudden provocation, due to a sudden fight between them cannot be ruled out.

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2025 INSC 137 Kuldeep Singh vs State Of Punjab - S 375 - Marital Rape Exception

IPC - Section 375 - Marital Rape Exception

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Karan Singh vs State Of Haryana 2025 INSC 133 - S 304B IPC - S 113B Evidence Act - Dowry Death

IPC - Section 304B ; Evidence Act - Section 113B - Dowry Death

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Constable 907 Surendra Singh State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 114 - S 34 IPC - S 378 CrPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 34 - For convicting the accused with the aid of Section 34 of the IPC the prosecution must establish prior meetings of minds. It must be established that all the accused had preplanned and shared a common intention to commit the crime with the

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Manish Kumar Singh vs State Of Chhattisgarh - S 295A IPC - S 482 CrPC

What are the essential ingredients of Section 295A IPC?

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Prithivirajan vs State - S 376 IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 - Only because physical relations were established based on a promise to marry, it will not amount to rape. For the offence of rape to be attracted, the following conditions need to be satisfied: first, the accused promised to marry the prosecutrix

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Vedant Shukla vs State Of Madhya Pradesh - Ss 498A, 506 IPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 498A,506 - In FIR, apart from making their statement regarding demand of dowry criminal intimidation etc., there are no details of such an incident - Criminal proceedings quashed. Vedant Shukla vs State Of Madhya Pradesh Vedant Shukla vs State Of Madhya Pradesh .pdf52

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Seetaben Laghdhirbhai vs State Of Gujarat - S 212 IPC -Harbouring

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 222- Offence of harbouring an offender is made out when (a) an offence has been committed, (b) when the accused harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender and (c) the harbouring or concealing must

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M. Venkateswaran vs State 2025 INSC 106 - S 498A IPC - S 4 DP Act

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 498A ; Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 - Section 4- Appeal against conviction under 498A IPC and Section 4 DP Act - Disposing appeal, SC held: The ingredients of Section 498-A of IPC and Section 4 of DP Act are clearly made out - The sentence

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Madhushree Datta vs State Of Karnataka 2025 INSC 105 - Ss 323,503,504,506, 509 IPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 323 - For a conviction under Section 323 of the IPC, there must be a voluntary act of causing hurt, i.e., bodily pain, disease, or infirmity, to another person. Therefore, it is essential that actual hurt is caused. (Para 16) Indian Penal Code

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Venkatesha vs State Of Karnataka 2025 INSC 103 - Ss 361,363 IPC - Kidnapping - TIP

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 361,363- an offence punishable under Section 361 IPC would be made out only when a person takes or entices any minor under the age of 16 years, if he is a male or under 18 years, if female. Section 361 IPC, defines kidnapping

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State Of Jharkhand vs Dr. Nishkant Dubey 2025 INSC 94 - Aircraft Act - S 482 CrPC - Ss 336,441,447,448 IPC

Aircraft Act, 1934 - Aircraft Act, 1934 as well as the Rules framed thereunder [including Rule 14(ix) of Airport (Security) Rules, 2011] is a complete Code which deals with safety and security of civil aviation and aerodrome. The Aircraft Act, 1934 also prescribes a special procedure for taking cognizance

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A. Vijay @ Vijaya Kumar vs State - S 494 IPC - Bigamy

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 494 : BNS - Section 82(1) - The offence of second marriage is essentially one in personam, may be affecting the society at large. A. Vijay @ Vijaya Kumar vs StateA. Vijay @ Vijaya Kumar vs State.pdf53 KBdownload-circle

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Vijay @ Vijayakumar vs State 2025 INSC 90 - S 300 IPC - Exception 1 - Grave and Sudden Provocation

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 300 : Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita - Section 101- Exception 1 - Before Exception 1 can be invoked, the accused must establish the following circumstances: (i) there was a provocation which was both grave and sudden; (ii) such provocation had deprived the accused of his power

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Laxmi Das vs State Of West Bengal 2025 INSC 86 - S 306 IPC - S 108 BNS - Abetment Of Suicide

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 306 : Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 - Section 108 - A remark such as asking the deceased to not be alive if she cannot live without marrying her lover will also not gain the status of abetment. There needs to be a positive act that

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Bhupal Singh vs State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 82 - S 304B IPC - Dowry Death

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 304B ; Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023- Section 80 - For proving the offence of dowry death, the prosecution must prove that (i) the death of the woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or has occurred otherwise than in normal circumstances, (ii) the

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State Of Uttar Pradesh Vs Mahendra - S 376 IPC - Rape - Material Contradictions

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 ; Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 - Section 63,64 - evidence of a prosecutrix has to be placed at a very high pedestal, much higher than that of an injured witness, but when there are material contradictions making the Court disbelieve the evidence

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Dalip Kumar @ Dalli vs State Of Uttaranchal - Sexual Assault - Bodily Injuries

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375, 376 - Bodily injuries are not necessary to prove sexual assault and neither it is important to raise a hue or cry. It is a common myth that sexual assault must leave injuries. Victims respond to trauma in varied ways, influenced by factors

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Mahendra Awase vs State Of Madhya Pradesh 2025 INSC 76 - S 306 IPC - Suicide Abetment

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 306 - BNS 2023 - Section 108 - Section 306 IPC appears to be casually and too readily resorted to by the police. While the persons involved in genuine cases where the threshold is met should not be spared, the provision should not be

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State Of Karnataka vs Battegowda - Ss 324,326,34 IPC - Common Intention

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 324,326, 34 - Common intention and the pre-meeting of minds can take place at the spur of the moment itself during the course of the incident- Merely for the reason that the injuries inflicted by accused were less than what was inflicted by

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Ratheeshkumar @ Babu vs State Of Kerala - S 300 IPC - Ss 96-105 IPC - Right To Private Defense

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 96-105 - Right Of Private Defence - In order to justify the act of causing death of the assailant, the accused has simply to satisfy the court that he was faced with an assault which caused a reasonable apprehension of death or grievous hurt.

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State (GNCT Of Delhi) vs Vipin @ Lalla - S 376 IPC - Rape Case Quashed

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 375,376 -In the case of rape, conviction can be made on the sole testimony of the prosecutrix as her evidence is in the nature of an injured witness which is given a very high value by the Courts. But nevertheless when a person

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ABC vs XYZ 2024 INSC 1052 - S 376 IPC - Rape - Promise To Marry

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 376 -When contents of the FIR clearly suggest that both the parties being adult had consensual relations for years before the complaint was filed alleging that there was backing out of promise to marry -Under these admitted facts no case is made out under

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Jit Vinayak Arolkar vs State Of Goa 2025 INSC 31 - S 482 CrPC - S 415 IPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 415,420 -If a person sells a property knowing that it does not belong to him, and thereby defrauds the person who purchased the property, the person defrauded, that is, the purchaser, may complain that the vendor committed the fraudulent act of cheating. But

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Dinesh Kumar Mathur vs State Of M.P. 2025 INSC 16 - Ss 420, 120B IPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 420 - To establish the offence of cheating in inducing the delivery of property, the following ingredients need to be proved: (i) The representation made by the person was false. (ii) The accused had prior knowledge that the representation he made was false. (iii)