Supreme Court of India

Nazir Khan and Ors. v. State of Delhi

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Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 22 August 2003

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From the headnote

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987; Ss. 3 and 41 Pef!al Code, 1860-Ss. 121A, 122, 124A rlw Section 120( ) and 364A/ Foreigners Act, 1946--Section 14: Charges under TADA Act, Penal Code and Foreigners Act-Trial of nine accused persons by TADA Court-Main accused allowed to leave the country by Government of India in exchange of passengers of a hijacked aeroplane--Court found six of the accused guilty of having committed various offences-Convicted three of them to suffer death sentence, other three awarded life sentence and remaining two acquitted-On appeal, Held: when…

Authorities it was built on

2001 Jayawant Dattatray Suryarao v. State of Maharashtra cited by 14
1995 E.K. Chandrasenan Etc. Etc. v. State of Kerala cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2013 Sahib Hussain @ Sahib Jan v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2013 Sanjay Dutt (a-117) v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi (stf), Bombay relied on
2011 Mohd. Arif @ Ashfaq v. State of Nct of Delhi relied on
2025 Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (nct of Delhi) & Others referred to
2022 Mohammad Irfan v. State of Karnataka referred to
2022 Zakia Ahsan Jafri v. State of Gujarat & Anr. referred to
2016 Vikas Yadav v. State of U.P. and Ors. Etc. Etc. referred to
2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors. referred to
2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2013 Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi, Bombay referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 7 referred to

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