Supreme Court of India

State of Maharashtra v. Sujay Mangesh Poyarekar

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Reported as [2008] 13 S.C.R. 750

Bench C.K Thakker and D.K. Jain JJ.

Decided 19 September 2008

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the appeal deserves to be F allowed and is allowed accordingly by remitting the matter to the High Court for fresh disposal in accordance with law.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; S.378(3): Leave to appeal against order of acquittal - Grant of - Held: In deciding about grant of leave to appeal, appellate Court must apply its mind and consider as to whether prima facie case has been made out and arguable points have been raised against the acquittal of the accused or not - However, the Court need not to enter into minute details of prosecution evidence - If arguable points have been raised and material on record discloses deeper scrutiny and re-appreciation, re view or re-consideration of evidence, the appellate Court must grant leave

Authorities it was built on

1962 K. Chinnaswamy Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2025 Manoj Rameshlal Chhabriya v. Mahesh Prakash Ahuja & Anr. relied on
2018 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Anil Kumar @ Badka & Ors. relied on
2013 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Giriraj Dubey relied on
2021 Brijesh Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others referred to
2019 State of Maharashtra v. Shankar Ganapati Rahatol & Ors. referred to
2016 State of Rajasthan v. Firoz Khan @ Arif Khan referred to
2016 Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, Ministry of Law & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to

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