Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1386 · Decided 4 December 2025
Neeraj Kumar @ Neeraj Yadav v. State of U.P. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1386 · [2025] 12 S.C.R. 295
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5229/2025
- Decided
- 4 December 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 319, 161; Evidence Act Section 32(1), 32
Headnote
Issue arose whether the courts below, in the attending facts and circumstances, justified in dismissing the application for summoning additional accused. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.319 - Power to proceed against other persons of offence - Summoning of additional accused - FIR by the appellant- brother that his sister was shot by her husband based on the information received by him from his niece, aged nine years that her father shot her mother - Two statements of the victim recorded u/s.161 CrPC,
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