Supreme Court of India

Munna Pandey v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2023] 11 S.C.R. 1005

Bench B.R. Gavai, J.B. Pardiwala and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.

Decided 4 September 2023

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Issue for consideration: Whether the High Court erred in conﬁ rming the conviction and death sentence passed by trial court against appellant- accused for oﬀ ences punishable u/ss.302, 376, IPC and s.4, POCSO Act, 2012, despite serious lapses in the entire investigation. Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 376 – Protection of Children from Sexual Oﬀ ences Act, 2012 – s.4 – Serious lapses in investigation, conﬁ rmation of conviction and death sentence – Propriety: Held: s.162, CrPC does not prevent a Judge from looking into the record of the police investigation – Being a case of rape and murder of a

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
1981 Ram Chander v. State of Haryana cited by 6
1990 Jumman Khan v. State of U.P. cited by 5
2019 Digamber Vaishnav & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh Criminal Appeal Nos. 428-430 of 2019 March 05, 2019 cited by 4
1997 State of Raiasthan v. Ani @ Hanif and Ors. cited by 4
1974 Raghunandan v. State of U.P. cited by 4
2022 Chotkau v. State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 4
1999 Dandu Lakshmi Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh cited by 2
2012 Kunal Majumdar v. State of Rajasthan cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh referred to
2025 Om Prakash @ Israel @ Raju @ Raju Das v. Union of India and Another referred to
2024 Sunita Devi v. The State of Bihar & Anr referred to

Of those, 3 referred to

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