The Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a detailed judgment criticizing a split verdict in a murder case, holding that it is legally untenable to acquit accused persons of murder while convicting them only for criminal conspiracy when strong evidence directly links them to the crime. The Court said that such an approach reveals a serious…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 862 : 2025:CGHC:54999-DB The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has partially allowed an appeal and reduced a murder conviction to the lesser offence of grievous hurt, while keeping the accused’s conviction for concealment of a body intact. In a bench judgment delivered on November 12, 2025, Justices Rajani Dubey…
The Supreme Court of India has upheld the conviction of a woman, Jemaben, for the murder of her niece-in-law, emphasizing that a reliable first dying declaration cannot be discarded merely because of minor inconsistencies in later statements. The ruling came in Criminal Appeal No. 1934 of 2017, where Jemaben challenged her conviction under Section 302…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur has set aside the conviction of all the accused in the 2004 Pamgarh distillery murder case, bringing an end to a long legal battle that lasted over two decades. The Division Bench comprising Justice Rajani Dubey and Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad delivered a common judgment acquitting all the…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has overturned the conviction of a man who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly setting his wife on fire, holding that the prosecution failed to establish his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru ruled that the absence of…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, ordered the release on parole of Krishna Chand, a convict serving sentences for offences under Sections 342 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code, finding that the District Magistrate had improperly rejected his earlier parole application without recording the specific public-interest findings the rules require. The court’s decision emphasizes that the…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, upheld the conviction of Jhaggar Singh Yadav for the abduction, sexual assault and murder of a minor girl but stopped short of confirming the death sentence the trial court had imposed. After a careful review of the evidence and recent Supreme Court guidance on capital punishment, a two-judge bench led by…
Citation : 2007 Local Law (CG) 2 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man found guilty of murdering his five-year-old nephew in Bastar over a superstition-driven dispute. The Division Bench led by Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha dismissed the appeal filed against the Sessions Judge’s order dated February 23,…
Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 297 : 2006(1)CGLJ353 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of four men found guilty of murdering college student Preeti Shrivastava in 1998. The court affirmed the trial court’s verdict delivered by the Sessions Judge of Sarguja, rejecting all appeals filed by the accused and…
Citation : 2004 Local Law (CG) 26 The Chhattisgarh High Court has overturned a decades-old conviction in a stark reminder of how fragile circumstantial cases can be when the links in the evidentiary chain are weak. In a judgment authored by Justice L.C. Bhadoo, the court set aside a life sentence imposed on a man…