Supreme Court on Criminal Law and Procedure (In 18 Volumes)

Supreme Court on Criminal Procedure Code & Criminal Trial (1950-2021) in 8 volumes

This eight-volume exhaustive Digest on the subject of Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Trial is a complete source for the entire case law on the subject, from 1950 till date as laid down by the Supreme Court.

The Digest has been conceived and planned on the time-tested SCC index system to enable the discovery of all the rulings, easily and quickly.

Under the Criminal Procedure Code, of 1973, case law has been digested section-wise. A few sections have been clubbed together with a common synopsis, to enable systematic and convenient research on the closely related provisions of law. Sections which have been clubbed in this manner are: Sections 125 to 128 dealing with a Magistrate's power to award maintenance; Sections 155 to 159 dealing with the power and conduct of the investigation by the police; and Sections 161 and 162 dealing with the examination of witnesses by police. Furthermore, a synopsis of the case law has been given under Sections 154, 164, 167, 197, 378, 386, 406, 437, 438, 439, and 482, due to a large number of rulings thereunder.

Further, case law has also been digested under: Criminal Procedure Code, 1861; Criminal Procedure Code,1872; Criminal Procedure Code, 1882; Criminal Procedure Code, 1898; and the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment Bill), 1994.

Supreme Court on Evidence Act (In 5 Volumes) (1950 to 2023)

This comprehensive compendium not only contains all the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Evidence Act, 1872 from 1950 till the present but also contains the full statutory text of the Evidence Act. Furthermore, there are a large number of judgments in which the provisions of the Evidence Act are not expressly mentioned by the Supreme Court, but they are inferentially involved. The SCC Editors over the years have carefully studied each judgment of the Supreme Court since 1950 and have sifted and extracted every possible ruling of law that may be relevant to the Evidence Act, of 1872, thus making this compendium the most comprehensive source of rulings of law on the Evidence Act by the highest court of the land, which rulings are binding in the whole country under Art. 141 of the Constitution of India.

This Update Vol. 4 updates the case law in the?Supreme Court on Evidence Act, 1872 released earlier in 3 volumes, wherein case law covered is from 1950 to (2014) 5 SCC. Case law in this Update Vol. 4 is covered from (2014) 6 SCC up to (2018) 1 SCC & (2017) 15 SCC. This Update Vol. 4, like the previous three volumes, not only contains all the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Evidence Act, of?1872, but there are a large number of judgments in which the provisions of the Evidence Act are not expressly mentioned by the Supreme Court, but they are inferentially involved. The SCC Editors have sifted and extracted every possible ruling of law that may be relevant to the Evidence Act, of 1872, thus making this compendium the most comprehensive source of rulings of law on the Evidence Act by the highest court of the land that is binding on the whole country under Art. 141 of the Constitution of India.

Furthermore, this Update Vol. 4 on the Evidence Act, 1872 has been interconnected with related rulings of law covered in the Supreme Court on Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Trial and Supreme Court on Penal Code, so as to conserve space.

This Update Vol. 5 updates the case law in the Supreme Court on Evidence Act, 1872 released earlier in 4 volumes. Wherein case law covered is from 1950 to (2018) 1 SCC& (2017) 15SCC, cases law in this Update Vol. 5 is covered from (2018) Vol. 20 to (2023) Vols. 1 to 4 & (2017) 16 SCC.

This Update Vol. 5, like the previous 4 volumes, not only contains all the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Evidence Act, 1872, but there are a large number of judgments in which the previous of the Evidence Act are not expressly mentioned by the Supreme Court, but they are inferentially involved. The SCC Editor has sifted and extracted every possible ruling of law that may be relevant to the Evidence Act, of 1872, thus making this compendium the most comprehensive source of law on the Evidence Act by the highest court of the land that is binding on the whole country under Act, 141 of the Constitution of India.

Supreme Court on Penal Code (1950-2018) in 5 volumes

The digest covers the law of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 as laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court from 2015 to 2018. A new feature of the second edition is that the text of all the sections of the IPC is also given in these volumes, thus making it a complete source of law on the Indian Penal Code. Furthermore, particularly for those sections of IPC where the number of rulings is large, the same has been placed under numerous sub-headings mentioned in the synopsis. Subheadings under a section or a set of sections have been interconnected through internal cross-references. Besides using the topic and the statute approach, it is also possible to conduct a search through the Table of Cases Digested of all four volumes.

The present Volume 5 of the digest covers the case-law on the Indian Penal Code, 1860 as laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court from 2015 upto 2018. The earlier 4 volumes covered the case law from 1950 to 2014.

A new feature of these volumes is that the text of all the sections of IPC has also been given. Thus the digest serves as a complete source of law on Indian Penal Code.

• Volume 1 covers Ss. 1 to 298 and Ss. 299 to 304 (Contd.);
• Volume 2 covers Ss. 299 to 304 (Contd.);
• Volume 3 covers Ss. 299 to 304 (Concluded) to Ss. 375 to 376-D (Contd.);
• Volume 4 covers Ss. 375 to 376-D (Concluded) to END;
• Volume 5 covers Ss. 1 to END.

Special Features:

• All the rulings have been arranged systematically and where the number of rulings is large (such as Ss. 299 to 304 IPC), they have been placed under numerous sub-headings mentioned in the synopsis.
• The entire case law can be studied in a unified manner under four major parts:
• Culpable Homicide and Murder - Basic Principles.
• Culpable Homicide or Murder involving multiple accused.
• Particular kinds of Culpable Homicide, Murder, and/or other offenses.
• Trial, Sentencing, and other issues.
• Interconnection between sub-headings is indicated by cross-references.
• The bare text from the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been placed just above the rulings on that section. Hence the reader will not have to look at the bare Act separately and can study the sections themselves.
• Also contains annotations, editorial notes, and Coram details.