Supreme Court of India

Gurcharan Singh & Ors. v. State (delhi Administration)

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Reported as [1978] 2 S.C.R. 358

Bench P. K. Goswami and V. D. Tulzapurkar JJ.

Decided 6 December 1977

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the above observations equally apply to a case under Section 439 of the new Code and the legal position is not different under the new Code.

Judgment, page 13

Authorities it was built on

1961 The State v. Captain Jagjit Singh cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2022 Ms.y v. State of Rajasthan and Anr. relied on
2022 Centrum Financial Services Limited v. State of Nct of Delhi and Anr. relied on
2011 Sanjay Chandra v. Cbi relied on
2024 Arvind Kejriwal v. Directorate of Enforcement referred to
2023 Vernon v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. referred to
2021 Union of India v. K. A. Najeeb referred to
2014 Abdul Basit @ Raju & Ors. Etc. v. Md. Abdul Kadir Chaudhary & Anr. referred to
2014 Sundeep Kumar Bafna v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. referred to
2013 Gulabrao Baburao Deokar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to
2012 Pratapbhai Hamirbhai Solanki v. State of Gujarat and Another referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 7 referred to

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