Supreme Court of India

Aloke Nath Dutta and Ors. v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 662

Bench S.B. Sinha and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.

Decided 12 December 2006

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What the Court ordered

We hold that Section 161 enables the police to examine the accused during investigation.

Judgment, page 44

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 120B/302 and 201134--Conspiracy and murder-Prosecution case against four accused based on circumstantial evidence-Second accused impersonating as brother of first accused and signing some papers for sale of property-Other accused signing as witnesses-Dead body of brother of first accused found concealed in a newly erected platform in his house Extra-judicial confession of first accused stating to have killed his brother as deceased was not agreeable to the sale of ancestral property-He did not state other accused to have participated in the crime-Retracted judicial

Authorities it was built on

1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra cited by 159
1988 Hindustan Thompson Associates Ltd. v. Mrs. Maya Inderson Israni & Ors. cited by 21
2003 State of Rajasthan v. Kheraj Ram cited by 12
2004 Surendra Pal Shivbalakpal v. State of Gujarat cited by 11
2005 State of M.P. through C.B.I. Etc. v. Paltan Mallah and Ors. Etc. cited by 10
2001 State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghana and Ors. cited by 10
1957 Subramania Goundan v. The State of Madras cited by 9
2005 Holiram Bordoloi v. State of Assam cited by 7
2006 Babubhai Udesinh Parmar v. State of Gujarat cited by 7

Where later benches applied it

2020 Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2014 Anil @ Anthony Arikswamy Joseph v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2012 Sahadevan & Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2010 C. Muniappan & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2022 Barun Chandra Thakur v. Master Bholu & Anr. referred to
2020 Manoj Suryavanshi v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2018 Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors. referred to
2014 Md. Jamiludin Nasir v. State of West Bengal referred to
2013 Sushil Sharma v. The State of N.C.T. of Delhi referred to
2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2012 Sangeet & Anr. v. State of Haryana referred to
2012 Munna Kumar Upadhyaya @ Munna Upadhyaya v. The State of Andhra Pradesh through Public Prosecutor, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh referred to
2012 Jitender Kumar v. State of Haryana referred to
2009 Haru Ghosh v. State of West Bengal referred to
2019 Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr v. Mohd. Parvez Abdul Kayuum Etc distinguished

Of those, 4 relied on · 1 distinguished · 11 referred to

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