2025 INSC 1483
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REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. OF 2025
[Arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos. 6647 - 6650 of 2025]
LAKSHMANAN …APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
STATE THROUGH THE DEPUTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE & ORS. ETC. … RESPONDENT(S)
J U D G M E N T
R. MAHADEVAN, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. The instant Criminal Appeals have been preferred by the appellant /
defacto complainant, aggrieved by the judgment dated 09.04.2025 passed by the
Madurai Bench of Madras High Court1 in Criminal Appeal (MD) Nos. 359, 346,
360 and 326 of 2025. Vide the impugned judgment, the High Court allowed the
said criminal appeals, thereby enlarging the respondents / accused persons on
bail subject to certain conditions, and directed the Principal District Judge,
1 Hereinafter shortly referred to as “the High Court”
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Madurai, to conduct joint trial of the cases viz., Crime No. 39 of 2020 (Special
S.C. No.25 of 2021) and Crime No. 202 of 2022 (P.R.C. No. 17 of 2023), after
completing the required committal formalities.
3. Briefly, the facts are that on 24.02.2020, the appellant, Lakshmanan,
along with his friend Suresh (deceased), was brutally assaulted by A1
(Gopalakrishnan) and other accused persons using deadly weapons, while they
were surveying and fencing agricultural land situ...