Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 660 · Decided 1 July 2026
Neeraj Gupta v. Pardeep Kumar Bansal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 660 · [2026] 7 S.C.R. 481
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3092/2026
- Decided
- 1 July 2026
- Bench
- N KOTISWAR SINGH, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 244, 156(3), 200, 207, 208, 207to209, 319, 209
Headnote
Whether a Magistrate must record evidence when the offence is strictly triable by the Court of Sessions as in this case, where the allegations were inter alia u/s.302 of IPC. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.244 - In the year 2007, a between the appellant- complainant and his father on one side, with the respondents on the other - His father in the course thereof fell down and lost consciousness - Later, he died - No FIR was registered - In the year 2008, appellant-complainant sought direction
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