Supreme Court of India

Ms. X v. The State of Telangana and Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 4 S.C.R. 466

Bench Dipak Misra, A. M. Khanwilkar and Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud JJ.

Decided 17 May 2018

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the order of the High Court allowing the application for bail cannot be faulted.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Bail: Regular bail – u/s. 439 CrPC.- Granted in a case involvi ng offences u/ss. 376, 342, 493, 506 and 354( ) of IPC – Cancellatio n of – Held: There is no cogent material to indicate that the accused had been guilty of conduct which would warrant his being deprived of his liberty – No supervening circumstance made out to warrant cancellation of bail – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s. 439. On the complaint of the appellant against responden t- accused, charge-sheet was filed for offences punishable u /ss. 376, 343, 493, 506 and 354( ) of IPC. Accused was grante d anticipatory bail,

Authorities it was built on

1994 Dolat Ram and Ors. v. The State of Haryana cited by 15
2015 Neeru Yadav v. State of U.P. and Anr. cited by 10
2016 State of Bihar v. Rajballav Prasad@ Rajballav Pp. Yadav@ Rajballabh Yadav cited by 5
2011 Cbi, Hyderabad v. Subramani Gopalakrishnan & Anr. cited by 4
2012 Kanwar Singh Meena v. State of Rajasthan & Anr. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2022 Puran Mal v. State of Haryana & Anr. relied on
2021 Vipan Kumar Dhir v. State of Punjab and Another relied on
2026 Shuvendu Saha v. The State of West Bengal and Anr. referred to
2023 Bhagwan Singh v. Dilip Kumar @ Deepu @ Depak and Another referred to
2022 Centrum Financial Services Limited v. State of Nct of Delhi and Anr. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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