Ranbir Penal Code

B.D. Khunte, a jawan, was allegedly beaten and humiliated by his superior Sub Randhir Singh in a store room on 28 June 2006. Later that evening, while on guard duty, Khunte shot and killed Singh with his service rifle. He was tried by a Summary General Court Martial, convicted under Section 69 of the Army Act and Secti…

The State of Jammu & Kashmir appealed against a High Court order that quashed FIR No. 32/2012 and the entrustment order authorising Inspector Nisar Hussain to investigate alleged corruption and conspiracy offences under the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006 and Section 120B of the Ranbir Penal Code. The High Court…

Motilal Saraf, a former manager of the State Bank of India, was repeatedly charged under the Jammu & Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly receiving illegal gratification. After an initial charge sheet was quashed by the High Court for lack of a valid sanction, the State filed fresh charge sheets on the sa…

The petitioner, Imtiyaz Ahmad Malla, was selected as a constable in the Jammu and Kashmir Executive Police and issued an appointment letter in 2009, but his appointment was cancelled after it was discovered that he had concealed his involvement in a criminal case (FIR No. 52/2007 under RPC s.379 and Forest Act s.6). He…

The case concerned a BSF constable and a commandant who, after a quarrel with local youths, caused the death of a teenager. The State of Jammu & Kashmir sought to have the accused tried in a criminal court, while the BSF exercised its power under Section 80 of the Border Security Force Act to transfer the case to a Sec…

Vinay Nanda, a cashier in the Jammu & Kashmir Procurement Department, was convicted under Section 5(1)(c) of the Jammu & Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006 and sections 409 and 468 of the Ranbir Penal Code for misappropriating government funds. The trial court sentenced him to one year of rigorous imprisonment …

The appellant, Khurshid Ahmed, was accused of assaulting Arshad Sajad with an iron rod, causing a fatal head injury. The victim’s father (PW‑9) testified that the assault stemmed from a payment dispute in which the accused acted as guarantor. The trial court acquitted the accused, finding the sole eyewitness testimony …

The appellant, Santosh Kumari, widow of a murder victim, challenged the High Court's orders that set aside the trial court's charge and granted interim bail to the accused. The Supreme Court examined whether the charge, which listed only the relevant sections of the Ranbir Penal Code without a specific offence name, co…

The case involves the death of two young men, J and M, who were allegedly detained and assaulted in the house of accused Lal Chand and his sons. The trial court convicted five of the accused under sections 302, 148 and 149 of the Ranbir Penal Code, while acquitting two; the High Court upheld these convictions. On appea…

The appellant, Shabir Ahmed Teli, was convicted of murder under section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code for shooting his neighbour, Gani Shah, allegedly because Shah refused to give his daughter in marriage to the appellant. The trial and High Courts upheld the conviction despite a slow, shoddy police investigation that o…

The State discovered a large embezzlement by employees of the Jammu & Kashmir Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd. and filed an FIR under Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and the Ranbir Penal Code. The accused filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking to quash the FIR and obtain …

The appellants were convicted by the trial court for offences under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498-A (dowry harassment) of the Ranbir Penal Code, although the charge originally framed was only under Section 302 IPC (murder) read with Section 34. The High Court upheld the conviction, reducing the sentence fo…

Mohd. Maqbool Tantray was one of 18 accused in the abduction and murder of former MLA Mir Mustafa in 1990. After a protracted trial lasting nearly 20 years, only three co‑accused were tried with Tantray; the others were discharged, died, or absconded, and the two co‑accused were acquitted. Tantray was convicted under S…

The respondent, a Junior Engineer in the Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Department, was compulsorily retired under Article 226(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations after a vigilance FIR alleged bribery and a sanction for prosecution was granted. The respondent challenged the retirement in a writ p…