Supreme Court of India

State of Madhya Pradesh v. Pradeep Sharma

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Reported as [2013] 12 S.C.R. 772

Bench P. Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi JJ.

Decided 6 December 2013

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: c s.438 rlw s.82 - Anticipatory bail - Respondents, accused of offences punishable u/ss 302 and 120-8 rlw s.34 /PC - Declared absconders - Granted anticipatory bail by High Court - Subsequently released on regular ail by CJM - Held: If anyone is declared as an absconder/proclaimed 0 offender in terms of s. 82, he is not entitled to the relief of anticipatory bail - The power exercisable uls 438 is extraordinary in character and it is to be exercised only in exceptional cases where it appears that the person may be falsely implicated or where there are

Authorities it was built on

2012 Lavesh v. State (nct of Delhi) cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2024 Srikant Upadhyay & Ors v. State of Bihar & Anr. relied on
2025 Daljit Singh v. State of Haryana & Anr. referred to
2023 State of Haryana v. Dharamraj referred to
2023 Central Bureau of Investigation v. Santosh Karnani & Anr referred to
2021 Prem Shankar Prasad v. The State of Bihar & Anr. referred to

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