Supreme Court of India

Hitesh Verma v. The State of Uttarakhand & Anr.

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Reported as [2020] 9 S.C.R. 593

Bench L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi JJ.

Decided 5 November 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above facts, we find that the charges a gainst the appellant under Section 3(1)(r) of the Act are not made out.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482 – Petition under – For quashing charges u/ss . 452, 504 and 506 IPC and u/ss. 3(1)(x) (Substituted as 3( 1)(r) by Act No. 1 of 2016) and 3(1)(e) of Scheduled Castes and the Sche duled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – Dismissed by High Court – Appeal to Supreme Court – Held: Offences under th e Act not established – Hence the charges under the Act, quashed – harges under IPC to be tried by competent Court. s. 482 – Quashing of charge-sheet in part – Held: There is no prohibition under the law for quashing the charge-sheet in part. Scheduled

Authorities it was built on

2018 Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr. cited by 9
2008 Gorige Pentaiah v. State of A.P. & Ors. cited by 6
2019 Union of India v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. cited by 4
2008 Swaran Singh & Ors. v. State through Standing Counsel & Anr. cited by 4
2009 Ashabai Machindra Adhagale v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. cited by 1
2017 Ishwar Pratap Singh & Ors. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 Karuppudayar v. State Rep. by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Lalgudi Trichy & Ors. relied on
2024 Shajan Skaria v. The State of Kerala & Anr. relied on
2026 Gunjan @ Girija Kumari v. State (nct of Delhi) referred to
2025 Kiran v. Rajkumar Jivraj Jain & Anr. referred to
2023 Ramesh Chandra Vaishya v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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