Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 811 · Decided 14 May 2025
Lal MOHD. & ANR. v. State of U.P. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 811 · [2025] 5 S.C.R. 741
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2593/2025
- Decided
- 14 May 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Whether the prosecution of the appellants under the UP Gangsters Act satisfies the statutory thresholds prescribed under the Act, when it is based entirely on a single FIR, in which the appellants were already arrested and released on bail, and where no new act or omission of the First FIR i.e., 11.10.2022, and the preparation of the gang chart on 29.04.2023. Uttar Pradesh Gangsters & Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 - s.2(b), (c) - First FIR was registered against the appellants and others on 11.10.2022 for
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