Supreme Court of India
Himanshu Kumar and Others v. State of Chhattisgarh and Others
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the conditions laid down by this Court in the case of Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, West Bengal (supra) quoted earlier are not fulfilled.
Judgment, page 59
From the headnote
Criminal Law – Constitution of India – Article 32 – Petit ion seeking mandamus for re-investigation / further investigat ion – Two incidents of alleged brutal massacre of tribals in th ree villages in the State of Chhattisgarh – Case of the writ petiti oners that the Chhattisgarh Police, Special Police Officers (SPOs) , the activists of Salwa Judum (group of vigilantes sponsored by the Chhattisg arh Government) and the Paramilitary Forces consisting of the CRPF and the CoBRA Battalions were responsible for the alleged massacre – Whether any case was made out by the writ petitio ners for
Authorities it was built on
- 2010 State of West Bengal & Ors. v. The Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, West Bengal & Ors
- 2011 Narmada Bai v. State of Gujarat and Ors
- 2008 Divine Retreat Centre v. State of Kerala & Ors.
- 2018 Romila Thapar and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2013 Prof. K.V. Rajendran v. Superintendent of Police, Cbcid South Zone, Chennai & Ors.
- 1977 K. Karunakaran v. T. V. Eachara Warrier
- 1973 Santokh Singh v. Izhar Hussain and Anr.
- 2001 Pritish v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2016 Amarsang Nathaji as Himself and as Karta and Manager v. Hardik Harshadbhai Patel and Others
- 2010 R.S. Sujatha v. State of Karnataka and Ors.
- 2011 Muthu Karuppan v. Parithi Llamvazhuthi and Anr.
- 2015 Sanjiv Rajendra Bhatt v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2019 Aarish Asgar Qureshi v. Fareed Ahmed Qureshi & Anr.
- 2006 K.karunakaran v. State of Kerala
- 2018 E. Sivakumar v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1966 Baban Singh and Anr. v. Jagdish Singh & Ors.
- 1978 S. P. Kohli, Civil Surgeon, Ferozepur v. High Court of Punjab & Hary Ana
- 1966 M. L. Sethi v. R. P. Kapur & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 2 referred to
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