Supreme Court of India

Dr. Rini Johar & Anr. v. State of M.P. & Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 5 S.C.R. 579

Bench Dipak Misra J.

Decided 3 June 2016

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From the headnote

Constitution of India: Arts. 21 and 32 - Complaint against two ladies-petitioners (a doctor and a practicing advocate) - FIR registered against them u/ s. 42() rlw s. 34 !PC and uls. 66- of Information Technology Act (IT Act) - Arrest of the petitioners - Later they were enlarged on bail - Complaint of petitioners against a police official for demand and acceptance of bribe from them - Initiation of criminal proceedings against the erring police officials - They also alleged violations of provision ulss. 41- to 41- Cr.P. - In the inquiry into the allegations, found that procedure for arrest

Authorities it was built on

1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors. cited by 115
1993 Smt. Nilabati Behera Alias Laut Behera (through the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee) v. State of Orissa and Ors. cited by 50
1996 D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal cited by 41
2014 Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar & Anr. cited by 25
2015 Shreya Singhal v. Union of India cited by 20
1995 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors. cited by 20
2006 Sube Singh v. State of Haryana and Ors. cited by 9
2014 Charu Khurana & Others v. Union of India & Others cited by 8
2012 Dr. Mehmood Nayyar Azam v. State of Chattisgarh and Ors. cited by 7
2009 Devendra &ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr. cited by 7

Where later benches applied it

2021 Vinod Dua v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 Union of India v. Ashok Kumar Sharma and Others referred to

Of those, 2 referred to

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