Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 806 · Decided 5 June 2025
M/S Balaji Traders v. The State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 806 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 364
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2899/2025
- Decided
- 5 June 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 383, 387; CrPC Section 200, 482
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in observing that since no offence of extortion u/s.383 IPC is made out, consequently, no offence u/s.387 IPC would be made out. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.383, 387 - On 22.05.2022, when the complainant was three unknown persons carrying rifles in their hands, stopped and threatened him to close down his business of betel nut - They further threatened that he could carry on the business only if he would pay five lakhs per month to the accused person - On the complainant's
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