Supreme Court of India

Laxman v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 697

Bench G.B. Pattanaik, M.B. Shah, Doraiswamy Raju, S.N. B Variava and D.M. Dharmadhikari JJ.

Decided 27 August 2002

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1999 Paparambaka Rosamma and Ors. v. State of Andhra Pradesh cited by 13

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2025 Tarun Sharma v. State of Haryana relied on
2026 Sanjay Kumar Sharma v. State of Bihar referred to
2026 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Chaman Lal referred to
2025 Neeraj Kumar @ Neeraj Yadav v. State of U.P. & Ors. referred to
2024 Dharmendra Kumar @ Dhamma v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to

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