Supreme Court of India

Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 2 S.C.R. 1

Decided 10 January 2014

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46 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

Authorities it was built on

1978 Union of India v. Prafulla Kumar Samal & Anr. cited by 21
1989 Stree Atyachar Virodhi Parishad Etc. Etc. v. Dilip Nathumal Chordia & Anr. cited by 16
1992 M.V. Elisabeth and Ors. v. Harwan Investment and Trading Pvt. Ltd., Hanoekar House, Swatontapeth, Vasco-de-gama, Goa cited by 16
2002 Dilawar Balu Kurane v. State of Maharashtra cited by 14
2012 Rohitash Kumar & Ors. v. Om Prakash Sharma & Ors. cited by 12
1995 P. Kasilingam and Ors. v. P.S.G. College of Technology and Ors. cited by 12
1977 State of Bihar v. Ramesh Singh cited by 11
1996 Sultana Begum v. Prem Chand Jain cited by 10
1982 Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Ram Kishan Rohtagi and Others cited by 7
1964 Patel Chunibhai Dajibhai Etc. v. Narayanrao Khanderao Jambekar and Another cited by 7
2012 Anju Chaudhary v. State of U.P. & Anr. cited by 6
1975 Sat Pal v. Delhi Administration cited by 6
1996 Raj Kjshore Prasad v. State of Bihar cited by 6
1990 Niranjan Singh Karam Singh Punjabi and Ors Etc. Etc. v. Jitendra Bhimaraj Bijje and Ors. Etc. Etc. cited by 6
1996 State of Bihar and Ors v. Bihar Distillery Ltd. Etc. cited by 6
2002 Feroze N. Dotivala v. P.M. Wadhwani and Ors. cited by 6
2007 Rajendra Singh v. State of U.P. and Anr. cited by 5
1996 Union of India and Ors. v. Major General Madan Lal Yadav (retd.) cited by 5
1988 Mahalakshmi Oil Mills Etc. Etc. v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. cited by 5
1996 "common Cause", A Registered Society through its Director v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 4
2008 Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors. cited by 4
1978 Ratilal Bhanji Mithani v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. cited by 3
1998 South Central Railway Employees Co-operative Credit Society Employees Union, Secunderabad v. Registrar of Co-operative Societies and Ors cited by 3
2008 M/s. Ponds India Ltd. (merged with H.L. Ltd.) v. Commissioner of Trade Tax, Lucknow cited by 3
2007 Mohd. Shafi v. Mohd. Rafiq & Anr. cited by 3
2011 Kalyan Kumar Gogoi v. Ashutosh Agnihotri and Another cited by 3
1985 State Delhi (administration) v. Laxman Kumar & Ors. cited by 3
1978 Joginder Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab & Anr. cited by 3
1989 Commissioner of Income-tax, New Delhi (now Rajasthan) v. East West Import & Export (p).ltd.,(now Known as Asian Distributors Ltd), Jaipur cited by 3
2004 Moly and Anr. v. State of Kerala cited by 2
2007 M/s. Hamdard (wakf) Laboratories v. Deputy Labour Commr. and Ors. cited by 2
1990 Sohan Lal and Ors. v. State of Rajasthan cited by 2
2009 Sarbjit Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab & Anr. cited by 2
2007 Guriya@tabassum Tauquir and Ors. v. State of Bihar and Anr. cited by 2
1997 State of Maharashtra v. Priya Sharan Maharaj and Ors. cited by 2
2003 Ameer Trading Corporation Ltd. v. Shapoorji Data Processing Ltd. cited by 2
1996 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Dr. Krishna Chandra Saksena cited by 2
2006 Lok Ram v. Nihal Singh and Anr cited by 2
2001 Rakesh and Anr. v. State of Haryana cited by 1
1983 State of U.P. v. Laxmi Brahman & Anr. cited by 1
2008 Lal Suraj @ Suraj Singh & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand cited by 1
2009 Harbhajan Singh and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 Mohammad Kaleem v. The State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2025 Yadwinder Singh v. Lakhi Alias Lakhwinder Singh & Anr. Etc. relied on
2025 Jamin & Anr. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2025 Independent Sugar Corporation Ltd. v. Girish Sriram Juneja & Ors. relied on
2024 N. Manogar & Anr. v. The Inspector of Police & Ors. relied on
2023 Jitendra Nath Mishra v. State of U.P. & Anr relied on
2023 Vikas Rathi v. The State of U.P. & Anr. relied on
2023 Juhru & Ors v. Karim & Anr. relied on
2021 Manjeet Singh v. State of Haryana & Ors. relied on
2021 Sartaj Singh v. State of Haryana & Anr. Etc. relied on
2019 G H P. Gopalkrishnan @ Dileep v. State of Kerala and Anr. relied on
2019 Periyasami and Ors. v. S. Nallasamy relied on
2017 Brijendra Singh & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2016 Balveer Singh & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan & Anr. relied on
2015 Jogendra Yadav & Ors. v. State of Bihar &anr. relied on
2026 Neeraj Gupta v. Pardeep Kumar Bansal followed
2025 Harjinder Singh v. The State of Punjab & Anr. followed
2025 Satbir Singh v. Rajesh Kumar and Others followed
2025 Omi @ Omkar Rathore & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. followed
2024 Asim Akhtar v. The State of West Bengal & Anr. followed
2023 Yashodhan Singh & Ors. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. followed
2022 Nahar Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. followed
2021 Ramesh Chandra Srivastava v. The State of U. P. & Anr. followed
2021 Ajay Kumar @ Bittu & Anr. v. State of Uttarakhand & Anr. followed
2020 Commissioner of Central Excise, Nagpur v. M/s Universal Ferro & Allied Chemicals Ltd. & Anr.ce F G H followed
2019 Saeeda Khatoon Arshi v. State of Up & Anr followed
2019 Shiv Prakash Mishra v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another followed
2019 Rajesh & Ors. v. State of Haryana followed
2019 Sugreev Kumar v. State of Punjab & Ors. followed
2018 Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.v. Central Bureau of Investigation v. Central Bureau of Investigation followed
2026 Parvinder Singh v. Enforcement of Directorate referred to
2025 Neeraj Kumar @ Neeraj Yadav v. State of U.P. & Ors. referred to
2025 Gurdeep Singh v. The State of Punjab referred to
2025 Shiv Baran v. State of U.P. & Anr. referred to
2024 Property Owners Association & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to
2024 Sunita Devi v. The State of Bihar & Anr referred to
2024 Shankar v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2022 Sukhpal Singh Khaira v. The State of Punjab referred to
2022 Nemai Chandra Kumar (d) Thr. Lrs. & Ors v. Mani Square Ltd. & Ors referred to
2022 Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited v. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation referred to
2019 Haribhai Malaviya and Ors. v. The State of Gujarat and Anr. referred to
2019 Sunil Kumar Gupta and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others referred to
2018 Labhuji Amratji Thakor & Ors. v. The State of Gujarat & Anr. referred to
2017 Nitya Dharmananda @ K. Lenin & Anr v. Sri Gopal Sheelum Reddy Also Known as Nithya Bhaktananda and Anr. referred to
2014 R. N. Agarwal v. R. C. Bansal & Ors. referred to
2021 The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. v. K. Shobana Etc. Etc. distinguished

Of those, 15 relied on · 15 followed · 1 distinguished · 15 referred to

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