Supreme Court of India

Ishwarji Nagaji Mali v. State of Gujarat and Another

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Reported as [2022] 2 S.C.R. 694

Bench M. R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.

Decided 18 January 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, t he present appeal is allowed.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure – s.439 – Penal Code, 18 60 – ss. 302, 120B, 114 – Bail – Grant of, when not proper – FIR was lodged against unknown persons initially for offence s punishable u/s.304A, IPC and ss.177, 184 & 134, Motor Vehicles Act considering the story narrated by respondent no.2 t hat his wife was accidentally hit by a speeding car when they we re walking together – However, later it was revealed that he hatched a criminal conspiracy along with co-accused persons to kill his wife and treat the offence as an accident – Charged u/ss.302, 120( ), 114, IPC – Bail rejected by Sessions

Authorities it was built on

2002 Ram Govind Upadhyay v. Sudarshan Singh and Ors. cited by 53
2010 Prasanta Kumar Sarkar v. Ashis Chatterjee & Anr. cited by 24
1977 Gudikanti Narasimhulu and Ors. v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh cited by 22
2019 Mahipal v. Rajesh Kumar @ Polia & Anr. cited by 21
2001 Prahlad Singh Bhat v. N.C. T., Delhi and Anr. cited by 17
2015 Neeru Yadav v. State of U.P. and Anr. cited by 10
2017 Anil Kumar Yadav v. State (nct) of Delhi & Anr. cited by 10
2021 Ramesh Bhavan Rathod v. Vishanbhai Hirabhai Makwana Makwana (koli) & Anr. cited by 10

Where later benches applied it

2025 State of Karnataka v. Sri Darshan Etc. relied on

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