Supreme Court of India

Sanjay Dutt v. The State through C.B.I. Bombay

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Reported as [1994] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 263

Bench Am. Ahmadi, J.S. Verma, 'p.B. Sawant, B.P. Jeevan Reddy and N.P. Singh JJ.

Decided 9 September 1994

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From the headnote

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987: Section 5--Essential ingredients of and ambit of defence available to accused-First ingredient-Possession of specified Arms and Ammuni tion-Held possession means conscious possession and not mere cus todj-Second ingredient-Possession should be unauthorised i.e. without the authority of law-Third ingredient-Possession of unauthorised arms and . ammunition should be in a notified area-Essence of third ingredient is that a presumption arises that the weapons were meant for use in terrorist or disruptive act-Held such a presumption is

Authorities it was built on

1952 Naranjan Singh Nathawan v. The State of Punjab cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2022 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Nirmal Kaur @ Nimmo and Others relied on
2022 Serious Fraud Investigation Office v. Rahul Modi & Ors. relied on
2013 Sanjay Dutt (a-117) v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi (stf), Bombay relied on
2013 Ibrahim Musa Chauhan @ Baba Chauhan v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2013 Essa@ Anjum Abdul Razak Memon v. The State of Maharashtra, through Stf, Cbi Mumbai, Part-ii relied on
2024 Central Bureau of Investigation v. Kapil Wadhawan & Anr. followed
2022 Jigar @ Jimmy Pravinchandra Adatiya v. State of Gujarat followed
2020 Bikramjit Singh v. The State of Punjab followed
2024 Apoorva Arora & Anr. Etc. v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) & Anr. referred to
2023 Judgebir Singh @ Jasbir Singh Samra @ Jasbir & Ors. v. National Investigation Agency referred to
2023 Qamar Ghani Usmani v. The State of Gujarat referred to
2023 Enforcement Directorate, Government of India v. Kapil Wadhawan & Anr. Etc referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 M. Ravindran v. The Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence referred to
2020 Indu Bai & Ors. v. State of Telangana & Ors. referred to
2018 Achpal @ Ramswaroop & Another v. State of Rajasthan referred to
2018 Rambeer Shokeen v. State of Nct of Delhi referred to
2017 Rakesh Kumar Paul v. State of Assam referred to
2014 Union of India through Cbi v. Nirala Yadav @ Raja Ram Yadav @ Deepak Yadav referred to
2013 Suresh Kumar Bhikamchand Jain v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. referred to
2012 Manubhai Ratilal Patel Tr. Ushaben v. State of Gujarat & Ors. referred to
2011 Union of India v. Hassan Ali Khan and Anr. referred to
2011 Chandran @ Manichan @ Maniyan v. State of Kerala referred to
2013 Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi, Bombay mentioned

Of those, 5 relied on · 3 followed · 15 referred to · 1 mentioned

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