Supreme Court of India
Romila Thapar and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, we have advisedly refrained from dealing with the factual issues raised by the parties and including the named accused represented by their counsel before us, as any observation made by this Court may cause serious prejudice to them or the co-accused who are not before this Court or, for that matter, the prosecution case, resulting in serious miscarriage of justice.
Judgment, page 38
From the headnote
Constitution of India – Art.32 – Writ petition filed by five persons, as next best friend of five activists-accused who were arrested purportedly in connection with FIR No.4/18 – Said FIR registered in Pune in relation to communal violence that took place in Bhima Koregaon as outcome of an event organized by organization called Elgar Parishad – Plea of petitioners that neither of the five accused persons were present in the said event nor any allegation against them is found in the FIR and that the said FIR was fabricated by Pune Police after FIR No.2/18 was filed against some Hindutva right…
Authorities it was built on
- 1996 D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal
- 2010 State of West Bengal & Ors. v. The Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, West Bengal & Ors
- 1991 Delhi Judicial Service Association Tis Hazari Court, Delhi Etc. Etc. v. State of Gujarat and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 1996 Vineet Narain and Ors v. Union of India and Anr.
- 2011 Ram Jethmalani and Ors. v. Union of Indla and Ors.
- 2008 Divine Retreat Centre v. State of Kerala & Ors.
- 2011 Narmada Bai v. State of Gujarat and Ors
- 2013 Bharati Tamang v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2006 Rajiv Ranjan Singh 'lalan' and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2003 Ashok Kumar Pandey v. The State of West Bengal and Ors.
- 1989 Kiran Bedi & Ors. v. Committee of Inquiry & Anr.
- 2018 The State of Maharashtra & Ors. v. Tasneem Rizwan Siddiquee
- 2009 National Human Rights Commission v. State of Gujarat
- 2014 Dinubhai Boghabhai Solanki v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
- 2007 Udyami Evam Khadi Gramodyog Welfare Sanstha Andanr. v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2015 Sanjiv Rajendra Bhatt v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2018 S. Nambi Narayanan v. Siby Mathews & Others Etc.
- 2012 Gulzar Ahmed Azmi & Anr. v. Uni.on of India & Ors.
- 2015 Common Cause & Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2009 Rajendran Chingaravelu v. Mr. R.K. Mishra, Addl. Commissioner of It & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 2020 Arnab Ranjan Goswami v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2021 Gautam Navlakha v. National Investigation Agency
- 2020 Mukesh Singh v. State (narcotic Branch of Delhi)
- 2023 Anant Thanur Karmuse v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors
- 2022 Himanshu Kumar and Others v. State of Chhattisgarh and Others
- 2019 Haribhai Malaviya and Ors. v. The State of Gujarat and Anr.
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 3 mentioned
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