Supreme Court of India

Anna Reddy Sambasiva Reddy & Ors. v. State of Andhra Pradesh

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Reported as [2009] 6 S.C.R. 755

Bench D.K. Jain and R.M. Lodha JJ.

Decided 21 April 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the view taken by the Calcutta High Court is the correct view namely, that a person charged with an offence read with section 149 cannot be convicted of the B substantive offence without a specific charge being framed as required by section 233 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 154 - FIR - Reliability of - Death of two and injuries to c prosecution witnesses due to political rivalry - Plea that FIR concocted document - Held: Not sustainable - Prosecution witness fit to give statement even though seriously injured - Doctor endorsed fitness and statement recorded in his ..... presence by AS/ - Absence of specific overt act attributed to f accused not fatal to prosecution case - No delay in sending FIR to magistrate. s.464 - Effect of omission to frame, or absence of, or error in, charge - Notice to all accused under charge 1 that

Authorities it was built on

1955 Willie (william) Slaney v. The State of Madhya Pradesh. cited by 64
1954 Pandurang, Tukia and Bhillia v. The St Ate of Hyderabad cited by 11
1995 Shamshul Kanwar v. State of U.P. cited by 11
2008 Dumpala Chandra Reddy v. Nimakayala Balireddy and Ors. cited by 4
1955 Suraj Pal v. The State of Uttar Pradesh. cited by 1
1955 Nanak Chand v. The State of Punjab cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2022 The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Subhash @ Pappu relied on
2019 Balvir Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2014 Chandra Prakash v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2012 Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2011 Mohan Singh v. State of Bihar relied on
2015 Vutukuru Lakshmaiah v. State of Andhra Pradesh referred to

Of those, 5 relied on · 1 referred to

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