2025: 100 Landmark Criminal Judgments.
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Supreme Court Criminal Case Law Digest 2025: 100 Landmark Judgments, Ratios & Citations

This digest covers Supreme Court criminal appellate judgments and orders delivered between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025. Every judgment was sourced directly from the official Supreme Court portal…

PC Act
Corruption Laws

Scope of 10% Disproportionate Assets threshold and burden of proof under PC Act

V&AC
Corruption Laws

Supreme Court Acquits Deceased Revenue Officer of Corruption Charges Due to Lack of Proof

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Latest

Digest July-Oct’2026

Copy Application
Articles

Stop delaying in providing certified copies in the name of unidentified procedures

Drafting Vakalat in Criminal Cases
Latest

Drafting Vakalat in Criminal Cases

BNSS

Suppression of Parallel Bail Proceedings is Abuse of Process: SC

Supreme Court bail orders
BNSS

SC: Bail Orders Must Include Independent Reasoning, Not Just Parties Submissions

BNSS

Constitutional Courts can intervene in an ongoing investigation if the same is being done unfairly or if a visible breach of fundamental rights is found by the courts

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Acquittal

Supreme Court Acquits in POCSO Case: TIP Cannot Replace Dock Identification

Acquittal

Acquittal: Gunshot: Witnesses might have already planned to frame the accused since they know the accused owned licensed weapon

oral arguments
Acquittal

Oral Hearing Is Non-Negotiable: Non-Cooperation by Defence Counsel Requires Amicus Appointment, Not Ex-Parte Verdict

acquittal
Acquittal

Section 306 IPC: Acquittal: some disputes or discord in matrimonial life would not itself attract the provisions of Sections 306 r/w 107 IPC

denovo trial
3 judge bench

Denovo Trial: Unusual recording of confession statements based on judicial directions and the doubt of subsequent insertion of statutory warning in the confession creates serious doubts

This judgment adjudicates a batch of criminal appeals stemming from a devastating bomb explosion on a public transport bus in 1996, which resulted in fourteen fatalities and numerous injuries. The…

hostile
BNSS

Honour killing: The court must see whether a hostile witness is totally discredited if not the court should not discard his testimony entirely

april'26
Digest

What’s New In April’26

section 319
Acquittal

Section 319 Cr.P.C: Trial court can decide whether an application under section 319 Cr.P.C should be decided with or without waiting for cross-examination

dowry death
Acquittal

Dowry death: Demand is for celebrating birth of male child and not for marriage further difference between admissibility and acceptability/reliability is explained

section 175(3) bnss
Latest

Practice & Procedure: Section 175(3) BNSS (formerly Section 156(3) CrPC)

quash petition
Latest

Quashing Petition under Sec 528 BNSS / 482 CrPC: Guide & Format (Including landmark judgment)

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Digest

Digest: Supreme Court & Madras HC Judgments (Jul-Sep 2026)

DV Act
ad. Jegan

Limitation For Initiation Of Domestic Violence Proceedings: Revisiting The Ratio In Kamatchi

Latest

Section 148 NI Act: Exceptional Circumstances Can Override the 20% Deposit Requirement

forgery
BNSS

Absence of production of Original forged document not fatal to prosecution and prosecution has right to prove forgery through circumstantial evidence

BNSS

Magistrate has no power to take Pre-Charge evidence in cases exclusively tried by Sessions Court

NI Act: Section 319 Cr.P.C cannot be invoked to implead company in cheque cases to avoid fatal defect
General

NI Act: Section 319 Cr.P.C cannot be invoked to implead company in cheque cases to avoid fatal defect

Section 187(2) & Section 38 BNSS: Supreme Court Clarifies period of Police Custody and Lawyer Presence & Videography Rules by giving directions
BNSS

Section 187(2) & Section 38 BNSS: Supreme Court Clarifies period of Police Custody and Lawyer Presence & Videography Rules by giving directions

Oraon Customary Law: Uncle-in-Law Cannot Induct Niece’s Husband as Ghardamad to Defeat Male Agnate Succession
Civil

Oraon Customary Law: Uncle-in-Law Cannot Induct Niece’s Husband as Ghardamad to Defeat Male Agnate Succession:SC

Civil

Civil case

death
Cr.P.C

Statement of the victim (deceased) to her mother and the mother repeats the same in her testimony (deposition) is admissible in evidence as dying declaration

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