Supreme Court of India

Niranjan Hemchandra Sashittal and Another v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2013] 4 S.C.R. 767

Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 15 March 2013

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Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 32 - Powers under - Exercise of -Scope - Accused, a public servant, allegedly acquired disproportionate assets - Trial under the Prevention of Corruption Act - Prayer for quashing of the trial on the ground of delay - Held: No time limit can be stipulated for disposal of criminal trial - The delay caused has to be weighed on the factual score, regard being had to the nature of the offence and the concept of social justice and the cry of the collective - In the case at hand, the gravity of the offence is not to be adjudged on the bedrock of the quantum of

Authorities it was built on

2004 Satyajit Banerjee and Ors. v. State of West Bengal and Ors. cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2015 Nayankumar Shivappa Waghmare v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2015 Krishnamoorthy v. Sivakumar & Ors. relied on
2015 Diwan Singh v. Life Insurance Corporation of India and Others relied on
2014 Bairam Muralidhar v. State of Andhra Pradesh relied on
2025 Devinder Kumar Bansal v. The State of Punjab referred to
2015 Yogendra Kumar Jaiswal Etc. v. State of Bihar & Ors. referred to
2015 U.P. State Road Transport Corp. &anr. v. Gopal Shukla & Anr. referred to
2014 Manoj Narula v. Union of India referred to
2017 State of Karnataka v. Selvi J. Jayalalitha & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 4 referred to · 1 mentioned

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