Supreme Court of India

Omprakash Sahni v. Jai Shankar Chaudhary & Anr. Etc.

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Reported as [2023] 5 S.C.R. 141

Bench M. R. Shah and J. B. Pardiwala JJ.

Decided 2 May 2023

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What the Court ordered

In the result, both the appeals succeed and are hereby allowed.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s. 389 – The thr ee respondents were convicted for the murder of the appellant’s br other by the Trial Court and sentenced to life imprisonment – The order of conviction and sentence passed by Trial Court wa s challenged in appeal by the respondents before the High Court – Responde nts prayed before the High Court that they be released on bail pending the final disposal of their appeals by suspending t he substantive order of sentence of life imprisonment – High Court suspended sentence and ordered their release on bail – On appeal, held: The endeavour on

Authorities it was built on

2012 Ash Mohammad v. Shiv Raj Singh @ Lalla Babu and Anr. cited by 14
2006 Rajesh Ranjan Yadav @ Pappu Yadav v. Cbi through its Director cited by 5
2014 Atul Tripathi v. State of Up. & Anr. cited by 4
1999 Bhagwan Rama Shinde Gosai and Ors. v. State of Gujarat cited by 3
2005 Vasant Tukaram Pawar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 2
2004 Kishori Lal v. Rupa and Ors. cited by 2
2008 Sidhartha Vashisht @ Manu Sharma v. State (nct of Delhi) cited by 1
2007 Gomti v. Thakurdas and Ors. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 Jamnalal v. State of Rajasthan and Another relied on
2025 Aasif @ Pasha v. The State of U.P. & Ors. referred to
2023 Prasanta Kumar Sahoo & Ors. v. Charulata Sahu & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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