Supreme Court of India

K. Anbazhagan v. The Superintendent of Police and Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 610

Bench S.N. Variava J.

Decided 18 November 2003

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9 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that for the convenience of the parties the State of Kamataka would be most convenient due to its nearness to Tamil Nadu.

Judgment, page 23

Authorities it was built on

1982 Sheonandan Paswan v. State of Bihar cited by 33
2000 Abdul Nazar Madani Etc v. State of Tamil Nadu and Anr. cited by 14
1997 Pandappa Hanumappa Hanamar and Anr. v. State of Karnataka cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2021 Mla From Mau District, Up v. Jail Superintendent (ropar) & Ors. relied on
2018 E. Sivakumar v. Union of India and Ors. relied on
2011 V.S. Achuthanandan v. R. Balakrishna Pillai & Ors. relied on
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2023 Afjal Ali Sha @ Abjal Shaukat Sha v. State of West Bengal & Ors referred to
2022 Mohd. Firoz v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2017 State of Karnataka v. Selvi J. Jayalalitha & Ors. referred to
2015 K. Anbazhagan v. State of Karnataka& Ors. referred to
2011 Jahid Shaikh & Ors. v. State of Gujarat & Anr. mentioned

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

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