Supreme Court of India

Esher Singh v. State of Andhra Pradesh

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 1180

Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arljit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 15 March 2004

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that on. the facts of the case, there is no question of holding the appeal filed by Balbir Singh to be not maintainable.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-Sections l 20A, l 20B and 302-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973--Section 2(b)-Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (TADA)--Sections 3(3), 4, 5, 6 and 15-Appellant was involved in giving provocative speeches for formation of Khalistan and inciting violence fanning religious feelings-Appellant and other accused charged for criminal conspiracy and murder of deceased under IPC and TADA-Prosecution relied on confession statement of one of the accused, who died without facing trial, in convicting the appellant-Designated Court convicted only the appellant under

Authorities it was built on

1954 Durga Shankar Mehta v. Thakur Raghuraj Singh and Others. cited by 41
1995 E.K. Chandrasenan Etc. Etc. v. State of Kerala cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2018 Vinubhai Ranchhodbhai Patel v. Rajivbhai Dudabhai Patel & Others relied on
2017 Ratanlal v. Prahlad Jat & Ors. relied on
2025 Khem Singh (d) through Lrs v. State of Uttaranchal (now State of Uttarakhand) & Another Etc. referred to
2025 M/s Celestium Financial v. A. Gnanasekaran Etc referred to
2014 Sumer Singh v. Surajbhan Singh and Others referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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