Supreme Court of India

State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Shanti Lal Shah & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 12 S.C.R. 1083

Bench K.G. Balakrishnan J.

Decided 1 September 2008

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11 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

Authorities it was built on

1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 54
1954 Navinchandra Mafatlal v. The Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay City cited by 32
2005 State of Gujarat v. Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jamat and Ors. cited by 16
1975 Govind v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. cited by 13
1972 R. M. Malkani v. State of Maharashtra cited by 13
1996 People's Union for Civil Liberties {pucl) v. Union of India and Anr. cited by 10
1996 State of Bihar and Ors v. Bihar Distillery Ltd. Etc. cited by 6
2007 Greater Bombay Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. M/s United Yarn Tex. Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2022 The State of Gujarat v. Sandip Omprakash Gupta relied on
2022 Jigar @ Jimmy Pravinchandra Adatiya v. State of Gujarat relied on
2020 Vinodchandra Sakarlal Kapadia v. State of Gujarat and Ors. relied on
2018 Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (retd.) v. Union of India & Ors. relied on
2015 Prasad Shrikant Purohit v. State of Maharashtra & Anr relied on
2013 Thalappalam Ser. Coop. Bank Ltd. and Ors. v. State of Kerala and Ors. relied on
2024 Mineral Area Development Authority & Anr. v. M/s Steel Authority of India & Anr. Etc. referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2017 State (nct of Delhi) v. Brijesh Singh @ Arun Kumar and Anr. referred to
2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2011 Banatwala & Company v. L.L.C. of India & Anr. referred to

Of those, 6 relied on · 5 referred to

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