Supreme Court of India

Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Anr.

Neutral citation

Reported as [2017] 8 S.C.R. 177

Bench Dipak Misra, R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan JJ.

Decided 7 July 2017

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

7 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

Authorities it was built on

1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab cited by 60
1954 Moran Mar Basselios Catholicos and Another v. Most Rev. Mar Poulose Athanasius and Others cited by 23
2014 Mohd. Arif @ashfaq v. He Registrar, Supreme Court of India & Ors. cited by 20
1997 Parsion Devi and Ors. v. Sumitri Devi and Ors. cited by 18
2014 Anvar P.V. v. P.K. Basheer and Ors. cited by 15
2000 Lily Thomas, Etc. Etc v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 13
1994 Smt. Meera Bhanja v. Smt. Nirmala Kumari Choudhary cited by 9
1980 P. N. Eswara Iyer v. The Registrar, Supreme Court of India cited by 8
1999 Suthenthiraraja@ Santhan and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. State through Dsp/cbi, Sit, Chennai Etc. Etc. cited by 8
2002 Devender Pal Singh v. State N.C.T. of Delhi and Anr. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2021 Rajendra Khare v. Swaati Nirkhi and Ors. relied on
2019 Akshay Kumar Singh v. State (nct of Delhi) relied on
2019 H Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (review Petition (crl.) Nos.446-447 of 2019) in relied on
2022 Mohd. Arif @ Ashfaq v. State (nct of Delhi) referred to
2020 Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and Ors. referred to
2019 Yashwant Sinha & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation through its Director & Anr. referred to
2019 Sudam @ Rahul Kaniram Jadhav v. The State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to

Sign in free to read it

The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing

An email address, no password.