LAW OF CRIMES II

Module 1: Introduction of Criminal Procedure

• Importance of Criminal Procedure

• Constitution of Criminal Courts and Powers of Criminal Courts
• Stakeholders and Functionaries under the Code: Police, Prosecutors, Defence Counsels,
Magistrates and Judges, Prison Authorities and Correctional Services Personnel
• Important Definitions

Case Law:

• Ramashraya Chakravarti v. State of M. P.; AIR 1976 SC 392

• Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration; AIR 1978 SC 1675
• Saroop Kumar v. State of H. P.; 1989 CriLJ 1884
• Harpal Singh Chauhan v. State of U.P.; AIR 1993 SC 2436
• D. K. Basu v. State of W.B.; AIR 1997 SC 610
• Sharad Hiru Kolambe v. State of Maharashtra; (2018) 18 SCC 718
• Sunil Kumar @ Sudhir Kumar & Anr v. The State of Uttar Pradesh; (2021) 5 SCC 560.

Module 2: Pre Trial Procedure: FIR & Investigation

• Investigation by Police.
• Contents and meaning of First Information Report
• Lodging of FIR, Registration, recourse in case of non-registration of FIR, effect of delay
in lodging FIR and other incidental matters.
• Difference between procedure of investigation of cognizable and non-cognizable
offences
• Mandatory requirements of Investigation and overriding effect of -non-compliance
therewith.
• Arrest of Persons
• Search and Seizure
• Filing of Charge Sheet/Final Report

Case Laws:

• Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675

• State of Haryana v. Ch. Bhajanlal, AIR 1992 SC 604
• D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1997 SC 610
• Smt. Shakila Abdul Gafar Khan v. Vasant Raghunath Dhoble; AIR 2003 SC 4567
• Munshi Singh Gautam v. State of M. P.; AIR 2005 SC 402
• State of M.P. through. CBI v. Paltan Malha, AIR 2005 SC 733
• CBI v. Sri Ravi Shanker Srivastava; AIR 2006 SC 2872
• Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar; (2014) 8 SCC 273
• Lalita Kumari v. Government of U.P AIR 2014 SC 187
• Vinubhai Haribhai Malaviya and Ors. v. State of Gujarat: 2019 SCC Online SC 1346
• Nevada Properties Pvt. Ltd. through its Director v. State of Maharashtra: 2019 SCC
Online SC 1247
• Ritesh Sinha v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2019) 8 SCC 1
• Aman Preet Singh vs. CBI through Director ; (2021) SCC Online SC 941
Module 3: Complaint to Magistrates:

• Complaint to Magistrates
• Various courses open to the Magistrate for verifying the allegations made in the
Complaint.
• Inquiry and Investigation Procedure regarding complaint before a Magistrate.

Case Law:

• Dr. S.S. Khanna v. Chief Secretary, Patna 1983 SCC (3) 42

• KM Mathew vs. State of Kerala, 1992 (1) SCC 217
• Anil Saran v. State of Bihar; AIR 1996 SC 204
• Mohinder Singh v. State (Chandigarh Admn.), (1997)115PLR623
• Adalat Prasad v. Rooplal Jindal and Ors. (2004)7 SCC 238

Module 4: Conditions Requisite for the initiation of Proceedings and Cognizance of offences by
Court:

• Conditions Requisite for the initiation of Proceedings.

• Cognizance of offence
• Limitation on the powers to take cognizance of an offence.
• Scrutiny of the complaint and issue of process.
• Specials summons for petty offences.
• Supply of copies to the accused person.
• Committal proceedings and consolidation of cases

Case Laws:

• Mohammad. Safi v. State of W. B.; AIR 1966 SC 69

• Banarsi Das v. Mohan Lal; 1986 CriLJ 1154 (P&H)
• P. Gopalkrishnan @Dileep v. State of Kerala: 2019 SCC Online SC 1532

Module 5: Bail:

• Object and meaning

• Bail in bailable cases
• Bail in non-bailable cases
• Anticipatory bail.
• Forfeiture of bail and bonds

Case Laws:

• Balchand Jain v. State of M.P., AIR 1976 SC 366

• Moti Ram v. State of M.P.; AIR 1978 SC 1594
• State v. Jaspal Singh Gill; AIR 1984 SC 1503
• Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal v. State of Tamil Nadu; AIR 2005 SC 716
• Ornprakash v. State of Haryana, AIR 2006 SC 125
• Rajiv Ranjan Singh ‘Lalan’ v. Union of India; (2006) 6 SCC 613
• Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. AIR 2011 SC 312
• Pradeep Ram v. State of Jharkhand, 2019 SCC Online SC 825
• Gautam Navlakha v. National Investigation Agency, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 382
Module 6:Charge:

• Meaning and content

• Form of charge/charges.
• Joinder of charges

Case Laws:

• Rawalpenta Venkalu v. State of Hyderabad; AIR 43 1955 SC 171

• Omprakash v. State of U.P.; AIR 1960 SC 409
• Chittaranjan. Das v. State of W.B.; AIR 1963 SC 1696
• State of W.B. v. Laisal Haque; AIR 1989 SC 129
• Balbir v. State of Haryana; AIR 2000 SC 11
• State of H.P. v. Tara Dutt; AIR 2000 SC 297

Module 7: Introduction to Trials and Trial Procedure

• General Provisions regarding inquiries trial

• Trial before Court of Session.
• Trial of Warrant cases, by Magistrate.
• Trial of Summons Cases by Magistrate.
• Summary Trials

Case Laws:

• Pramatha Nath Mukherjee v. State of W.B.; AIR 1960 SC 810

• Santa Singh v. State of Punjab; AIR (63) 1976 SC 2386
• Nirpal Singh v. State of Haryana; AIR 1977 SC 1066
• Stree Atyachar Vidrohi Parishad v. Dilip Nathumal; 1989 (1) SCC 715
• State of Gujrat v. Gandabhai; 2000 CriLJ 92 (Guj.)
• Amir Hamiz Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra; (2019) 8 SCC 387
• Accused X v. State of Maharashtra; (2019) 7 SCC 1

Module 8:Judgment Writing and Probation

• Contents of Judgment
• Judgments of Various Kind of Trials viz. Cases tried by Magistrates;- Summons cases;
Warrant cases etc.
• Special reasons to be recorded in certain cases
• Sentence, probation & security for keeping peace
• Compensation and costs
• Modes of pronouncing Judgments

Case Laws:

• Bishnu Deo Shaw v. State of W.B.; AIR 1979 SC 964

• Rajendra Prasad v. State of U.P.; AIR 1979 SC 916
• Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab; AIR 1980 SC 898
• Teja Singh v. Mukhtiar Singh; AIR 1995 SC 2411
 • Laxman Naik v. State of Orissa; AIR 1995 SC 1387
• Sheikh Ishaque v. State of Bihar; 1995 CriLJ 2682

Module 9: Appeal, Revision and Reference

• Appeal against conviction

• Appeal against acquittal
• No appeal in certain cases
• Appeal how heard
• Powers of Appellate Courts
• Revision: Scope and extent Interlocutory & Final Orders
• Reference

Case Law

• Manoj Kumar Yadav v. Kum Shobha Bose; 1993 CriLJ 1246 (All)
• State of Karnataka v. Appa Balu Ingale; AIR 1993 SC 1126
• State of Tamil Nadu v. A Jaganathan; AIR 1996 SC 2449

Module 10:MiscellaneousProvisions

• Maintenance
• Provisions regarding maintenance of-peace-and-good-behaviour
• Irregular proceedings and effect thereof
• Inherent powers of the High Court
• Rule of double Jeopardy

Case Laws:

• State (Delhi Admn.) v. Jagjit Singh; AIR 1989 SC 598

• Murlidharan v. State of Tamil Nadu; 1997 (1) Crimes 515 (Mad.)
• Laloo Prasad v. State of Bihar; 1997 (2) Crimes 498 (Pat.)
• Manohar M. Galani v. Ashok N Advani; AIR 2000 SC 202
• B. S. Joshi v. State of Haryana; AIR 2003 SC 1386
• Nanak Chand v. Chandra Kishore Aggarwal; AIR 1970 SC 446
• State of U.P. v Lalai Singh Yadav; AIR 1977 SC 202
• Municipal Council ,Ratlam v. Vardichan; AIR 1980 SC 1622
• Siraj Mohmed Khan v. Hafizunnisa Yasin Khan; AIR 1981 SC 1972
• Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum; AIR 1985 SC 945
• Dr. (Mrs.)Vijaya Arbat v. Kashirao Rajaram; AIR 1987 SC 1100
• Mohd. Shakeel v. Smt. Shaheena Parveen; 1987 CrLJ 1509 (Del)
• Tulsa Devi v. Amar Nath; 1996 CriLJ 1761 (AII.)
• Dwarika Prasad Satpathy v. Bidyut Praya Dixit; AIR 1999 SC 3348
• Mallika v. P. Kalandi; 2000 CriLJ 142 (Mad)
• Swapan Kumar Banerjee v. State of West Bengal; 2019 SCC Online SC 1263

Books:

• R.V. Kelkar, Criminal Procedure Code, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow, 6thEd., 2017,
rep.2019.
• Ratanlal Dhirajlal, The Code of Criminal Procedure, LexisNexis& Co., Nagpur. 21st
 Ed., 2018
• S.C. Sarkar, The Code of Criminal Procedure, LexisNexis, 12th Ed. 2018
• Mulla, Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Delhi Law House, 21 st Ed.,
2019
• K. D Shahi, Princep’s Commentary on The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Delhi Law
House, 2013
• D. D. Basu, Criminal Procedure Code, LexisNexis, 6th Ed., 2017
• Malik, S., Supreme Court on Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Trial, Eastern book
Company, 2nd ed., 2015

Articles:

• M. Stanley Fernandez, Criminal Investigation And Trial, (1982) 3 SCC (Jour) 63

• Ram Bhajan Rai, Relevance Of Statements Recurred By Police During Investigation,
(2001) 5 SCC (Jour) 14
• Upendra Baxi, Right To Speedy Trial: Geese. Gander and Judicial Sauce (State Of
Maharashtra V. Chmpalal), 25 JILI 90 (1983)
• Justice M.L.Shrimali, Delay In Administration Of Crimial Justice. (1982) 2 SCC (Jour)
44
• Dr. R Prakash, Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction Of Supreme Court – With Particular
Reference To Death Sentence And Life Imprisonment Cases, 2003 (2) SCC Jour) 17
• Smt. Lajvanti V Ganatra & V.B. Ganatra, Admonition V. Probation. 1973 (1) SCC (Jour)
10.
• P. R. Thakur, Is Release After Admonition For An Offence u/s 307 I.P.C. Legally
Permissible? 1982 (2) SCC (Jour) 15
• Shilpa Jain and Kopal Tewary, Custodial Torture: A Blot on The Criminal Justice System,
(2019) PL (HR) June 80
• Lovish Garg, Legality of the Internet Shutdown under Section 144 of Cr.P.C, 3 CMET
(2016) 95
• Animesh Ghosh, Different Aspects of Section 173(8) Cr.PC., (2018) 1 SCC Cri J-1.

Reports and other Reference Material

• 14th Report of Law Commission of India, "Reforms of Judicial Administration, 1958"

• 154th Report of Law Commission of India, "Code of Criminal Procedure." Vol. 1 and 2
• Report of the Malimath Committee, "Reforms of Criminal Justice System", (Submitted to
Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs in March 2003 by Dr. Justice V.S. Malimath)