Supreme Court of India

Anil Rai v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 298

Bench K.T. Thomas and R.P. Sethi JJ.

Decided 6 August 2001

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From the headnote

Constitution of India-Articles 21, 141 and 142-Delay in pronouncement of Judgments by High Court-Practice deprecated-Guidelines/or expeditious pronouncement of Judgments laid down-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973- S.353 (/). Criminal Procedure Code-S.157- FIR-Promptly recorded and investigation started-Delay in sending the copy to the area Magistrate-Held, does not vitiate the prosecution case Doubting the authenticity of FIR-Not every delay but only extraordinary and unexplained delay-Delay immaterial if prosecution gives cogent and reasonable explanation for such delay. Evidence Act 1872 :

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
1978 Madray Hayawadanrao Hoskot v. State of Maharashtra cited by 32
1995 Shamshul Kanwar v. State of U.P. cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2025 Rajan v. The State of Haryana relied on
2025 Ravindra Pratap Shahi v. State of U.P. & Ors. relied on
2022 K. Madan Mohan Rao v. Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil & Ors. relied on
2021 Sudipta Chakrobarty & Anr. v. Ranaghat S.D. Hospital & Ors. relied on
2019 Deep Narayan Chourasia v. State of Bihar relied on
2016 Yogesh Singh v. Mahabeer Singh & Ors. relied on
2025 Iqbal Ahmed (dead) by Lrs. & Anr. v. Abdul Shukoor referred to
2022 State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. v. Akhil Sharda & Ors. referred to
2022 Indrajeet Yadav v. Santosh Singh and Anr. referred to
2021 N. Vijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2013 M/s Telestar Travels Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. v. Special Director of Enforcement mentioned

Of those, 6 relied on · 4 referred to · 1 mentioned

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