Supreme Court of India

State (n.c.t. of Delhi) v. Navjot Sandhu@afsan Guru

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 79

Decided 4 August 2005

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the laptop found in the custody of the appellants and the results of analysis thereof would amply demonstrate that the laptop was the one used by the deceased terrorists E contemporaneous to the date of incident and it should have passed hands on the day of the incident or the previous day.

Judgment, page 173

Authorities it was built on

1955 Willie (william) Slaney v. The State of Madhya Pradesh. cited by 64
1975 Mohmed Inayatullah v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 23
1972 R. M. Malkani v. State of Maharashtra cited by 13
2003 Hardie Trading Ltd. and Anr. v. Addisons Paint and Chemicals Ltd. cited by 8
1991 Bhagwan Swarup and Anr. v. State of Rajasthan cited by 5
2001 Sukhan Raut and Ors. v. State of Bihar cited by 4
1997 Ammini and Ors. v. State of Kerala cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2026 P.suresh v. D.kalaivani relied on
2024 Fuleshwar Gope v. Union of India & Ors. relied on
2024 Perumal Raja @ Perumal v. State, Rep. by Inspector of Police relied on
2022 T.P. Gopalakrishnan v. State of Kerala relied on
2022 Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2020 Raja @ Ayyappan v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2019 Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr v. Mohd. Parvez Abdul Kayuum Etc relied on
2017 Kishore Bhadke v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2016 Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (eevfam) & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. relied on
2015 Mehboobali &anr. v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2014 Md. Jamiludin Nasir v. State of West Bengal relied on
2013 Sanjay Dutt (a-117) v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi (stf), Bombay relied on
2012 Mohammed Ajmal Mohammad Amir Kasab @ Abu Mujahid v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2011 Mohd. Arif @ Ashfaq v. State of Nct of Delhi relied on
2026 Narayana Health v. The State of West Bengal referred to
2026 Hem Raj v. State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2025 Nagamma @ Nagarathna & Ors. v. The State of Karnataka referred to
2025 Gurdeep Singh v. The State of Punjab referred to
2025 Rahil & Anr. v. State (govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi) referred to
2025 P Krishna Mohan Reddy v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2025 Renuka Prasad v. The State Represented by Assistant Superintendent of Police referred to
2025 Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2024 Dharmendra Kumar @ Dhamma v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2023 Santosh @ Bhure v. State (g.n.c.t.) of Delhi referred to
2023 Sundar @ Sundarrajan v. State by Inspector of Police referred to
2022 Mohd. Arif @ Ashfaq v. State (nct of Delhi) referred to
2022 Ram Sharan Chaturvedi v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2022 Mohammad Irfan v. State of Karnataka referred to
2022 Pappu v. The State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2020 Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and Ors. referred to
2019 State of Nct of Delhi v. Shiv Charan Bansal & Ors. referred to
2019 H Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (review Petition (crl.) Nos.446-447 of 2019) in referred to
2019 The State of Gujarat v. Anwar Osman Sumbhaniya and Ors. referred to
2018 Government of Nct of Delhi v. Union of India & Another referred to
2018 Shafhi Mohammad v. The State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2017 Sonu@amar v. State of Haryana referred to
2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. referred to
2017 Seeni Nainar Mohammed v. State Rep. by Deputy Superintendent of Police referred to
2015 Ag v. Shiv Kumar Yadav &anr. referred to
2015 R. Dineshkumar @ Deena v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police & Others referred to
2015 Tomaso Bruno & Anr. v. State of U.P. referred to
2014 Sushil Ansal v. State through Cbi referred to
2013 Gulam Sarbar v. State of Bihar (now Jharkhand) referred to
2013 Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi, Bombay referred to
2013 Surender Kaushik and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others referred to
2024 Ravishankar Tandon v. State of Chhattisgarh mentioned

Of those, 14 relied on · 31 referred to · 1 mentioned

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