Supreme Court of India

Prakash Kadam and Etc. Etc. v. Ramprasad Vishwanath Gupta and Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 6 S.C.R. 800

Bench Markandey Kat Ju and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.

Decided 13 May 2011

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Code of Criminal procedure, 1973: c s. 439 - Bail - Allegation against accused-policemen that they functioned as contract killers and killed the victim deceased in fake encounter- Bail granted by Sessions court - Cancellation of bail by High Court - On appeal, held: The version of accused that the deceased was shot in a police 0 encounter was found to be false during investigation - The prosecution material collected during investigation prima facie indicated that the deceased was abducted by accused during the day time and was taken to the police station and from there he was taken to some

Authorities it was built on

1994 Dolat Ram and Ors. v. The State of Haryana cited by 15
1983 Bhagirath Singh S/o Mahipat Singh Judeja v. State of Gujarat cited by 7
2010 Central Bureau of Investigation v. Kishore Singh & Others cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 State of Karnataka v. Sri Darshan Etc. relied on
2022 Deepak Yadav v. State of U.P. & Anr referred to
2022 Meena Devi v. The State of U.P. and Another referred to
2022 Ms. P v. The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another referred to
2018 Lachhman Dass v. Resham Chand Kaler and Anr. referred to
2015 Neeru Yadav v. State of U.P. and Anr. referred to
2012 Ash Mohammad v. Shiv Raj Singh @ Lalla Babu and Anr. referred to
2025 Ankit Mishra v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. mentioned
2014 People's Union for Civil Liberties & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 6 referred to · 2 mentioned

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