Rajnikant Dudhabhai Parmar vs State Of Gujarat

Rajnikant Dudhabhai Parmar vs State Of Gujarat on 5 October, 2026 Author: Dipankar Datta Bench: Dipankar Datta 2026 INSC 1101 NON-REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2026 [ARISING OUT OF SLP (CRL.) No. 21169 OF 2025] RAJNIKANT DUDHABHAI PARMAR …APPELLANT VERSUS THE STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. …RESPONDENTS ORDER 1. Leave granted. 2. The challenge in this appeal is to an order1 dated 11th August, 2025 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad. By the impugned judgment, the High Court allowed a revisional application 2 of the first respondent-State of Gujarat under Section 397 read with Section 2(d) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 19733 and quashed the order4 under challenge dated 13th September, 1999 discharging the appellant. 3. It appears from the record that the appellant was serving as a Sipahi at Sabarmati Central Prison. The prosecution case arose out of an incident Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by impugned judgment 1 pant rashmi dhyani Date: 2026.10.08 16:47:23 IST Reason: 2 R/Criminal Revision Application No.595 of 1999 3 Cr. PC 4 Sessions Case No.319 of 1998, Sessions Case No.352 of 1998 and Sessions Case No.168 of 1999  dated 23rd March, 1998, when a police raid at the premises of Saira Banu Ishaq Ibrahim Shaikh resulted in an exchange of fire and recovery of arms, explosives, ammunition and cellular phones. In connection therewith, Crime No. 22/1998 was registered at Dariapur Police Station inter alia under Section 122 of the Indian Penal Code, 18605. The role attributed to the appellant was that one of the accused persons had given a …