Supreme Court of India

Jaswinder Singh (dead through Lrs.) v. State of Punjab

Neutral citation
Bench Ujjal Bhuyan and Arun Palli JJ.
Decided 22 September 2026

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

Accordingly and in the light of the above, the impugned judgment and order of the learned Special Judge, Hoshiarpur dated 25.02.2004 in Corruption Case No. 7 of 2002 as affirmed by the High Court vide the judgment and order dated 28.11.2013 are hereby set aside. It is declared that the charge framed against Jaswinder Singh under Sections 7 and 13(2) of the PC Act could not be proved. Jaswinder Singh is thus cleared of the said charges. Consequently, the appeal is allowed.

Judgment, 22-23

In brief

The appellant, a Patwari (described in evidence as Naib Tehsildar), was alleged to have demanded Rs. 10,000 (later settled at Rs. 9,500) from the informant Kulwant Singh for mutating the land of the informant's deceased brother in favour of his legal heirs. A trap was laid by the Vigilance Bureau on 19.04.2002 with phenolphthalein-treated currency notes, a shadow witness (PW-2 Onkar Singh) and official witnesses, and after a signal the raiding party recovered 19 notes of Rs.…

Authorities it was built on

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the Supreme Court's own signed PDF — the original file as the Registry published it, not a copy somebody has watermarked or re-branded
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.