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A failed property transaction cannot be treated as cheating merely because the land was subsequently sold to someone else. The criminal allegations must disclose deception that induced the buyer to part with money. In Sudha Rakesh v. State of Karnataka & Anoth…
The prosecution may decide not to rely on a document collected during investigation. That decision does not necessarily prevent the accused from using it. A document whic…
In Subhas Chandra Sarkar v. State of West Bengal & Ors., 2026 INSC 1052, the Supreme Court held that the victim’s appeal against a Magistrate’s acquittal belonged before …
A person files a criminal complaint but dies before the court decides it. Does the accused automatically walk free? No. The complainant’s death does not, by itself, end e…
The central answer The first proviso to Section 223(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 creates an express opportunity of hearing before cognizance in the …
Written Grounds of Arrest before Mihir Rajesh Shah: Orissa High Court Treats Article 22(1) as a Pre-Existing Right Does the Supreme Court’s direction in Mihir Rajesh Shah…
The Supreme Court has drawn an important line between the person who reports an alleged crime and the person who actually suffers the alleged loss or injury. In Anand Kum…
In white-collar and corruption prosecutions, a challenge to an order framing charge or to the continuation of proceedings is often accompanied by an application to stay t…
In a financial-fraud prosecution, the decisive material may be a bank-generated statement, an e-mail trail, an exported chat, a cloud record, a CCTV extract, or data retr…
Digital child sexual-abuse material raises legal questions that cannot be reduced to whether a file was manually downloaded. Storage, viewing, control, sharing, facilitat…