Supreme Court of India

Achhar Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh

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Reported as [2021] 5 S.C.R. 243

Bench N.V. Ramana, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose JJ.

Decided 7 May 2021

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From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 378 – Appeal in case of acquittal – Exercise of power by the High Court under – On facts, the High Court convicted two accused-appellants for of fences u/s. 452, 326 and 323 and u/ss. 302 and 452 IPC, re spectively, setting aside the acquittal by the trial court – Inte rference with – Held: High Court rightly interfered with the perver se findings of the trial court and prevented miscarriage of justice by convicting the appellants – High Court went through the consist ent evidence against some of the accused which were overlooked b y the trial court amid

Authorities it was built on

2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 45
2002 Gangadhar Behera and Ors. v. State of Orissa cited by 21
2010 Babu v. State of Kerala cited by 19
2009 Arulvelu and Another v. State Represented by the Public Prosecutor and Another cited by 18
2012 Murugesan and Ors. v. State through Inspector of Police cited by 11
1999 Leela Ram (d) through Duli Chand v. State of Haryana and Anr. cited by 11
2019 Basalingappa v. Mudibasappa cited by 10
2002 Sucha Singh and Anr. v. State of Punjab cited by 10
1972 Dharma Rama Bhagare v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 5
2008 State of Andhra Pradesh v. M. Madhusudhan Rao cited by 3
2018 Khurshid Ahmed v. State of Jammu and Kashmir cited by 3
2003 Salim Akhtar @ Mota v. State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 2
2004 State of U.P. v. Kishan Chand and Ors. cited by 2
2013 Shanmugam and Anr. v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, T. Nadu cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 Operation Asha v. Shelly Batra & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 mentioned

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