Supreme Court of India

Narinder Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab & Anr.

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Reported as [2014] 4 S.C.R. 1012

Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and A.K. Sikri JJ.

Decided 27 March 2014

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From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Criminal proceedings -Settlement between the parties - Effect - Guidelines laid down to be kept in mind by the High Courts to take a view as to under what circumstances it should accept settlement between the parties and quash the proceedings and under what circumstances it should refrain from doing so - General discussion made in this behalf - Matter also o examined in the context of offences uls. 307 /PC - Penal Code, 1860 - s. 307. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - FIR registered u/ss. 30713241323134, /PC - Petition filed uls. 482 CrPC

Authorities it was built on

2012 Gian Singh v. State of Punjab & Another cited by 30
2003 B.S. Joshi and Ors. v. State of Haryana and Anr. cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2025 Naushey Ali & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr. relied on
2025 Ajay Malik v. State of Uttarakhand & Anr. relied on
2023 Pramod Kumar Mishra v. The State of U.P. relied on
2021 Ramgopal & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2020 Arun Singh & Others v. State of U.P. through its Secretary & Another relied on
2019 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Laxmi Narayan and Others relied on
2019 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Dhruv Gurjar and Another relied on
2024 Tarina Sen v. Union of India & Anr. referred to
2024 K. Bharthi Devi and Anr. v. State of Telangana and Anr. referred to
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2022 Union of India and Others v. Munshi Ram referred to
2022 P. Dharamaraj v. Shanmugam & Ors. referred to
2022 Daxaben v. The State of Gujarat & Ors. referred to
2017 Parbatbhai Aahir @ Parbatbhai Bhimsinhbhai Karmur and Ors. v. State of Gujarat and Anr. referred to
2017 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Nirmala Devi referred to
2015 State, Rep. by Inspector of Police Central Crime Branch v. R. Vasanthi Stanley &anr. referred to
2015 Satish Kumar Jayanti Lal Dabgar v. State of Gujarat referred to

Of those, 7 relied on · 10 referred to

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