REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

Criminal Appeal No 2319 of 2022

(Arising out of SLP (Crl) No 8238 of 2022)

Iqram

… Appellant

versus

The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors

… Respondents

J U D G M E N T

Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, CJI

1

Leave granted.

2

The facts of the present case provide another instance, a glaring one at that,

indicating a justification for this Court to exercise its jurisdiction as a protector of

the fundamental right to life and personal liberty inhering in every citizen. If the

Court were not to do so, a serious miscarriage of justice of the nature which has

emerged in the present case would be allowed to persist and the voice of a

citizen whose liberty has been abrogated would receive no attention. The history

of this Court indicates that it is in the seemingly small and routine matters

involving grievances of citizens that issues of moment, both in jurisprudential

and constitutional terms, emerge. The intervention by this Court to protect the

liberty of citizens is hence founded on sound constitutional principles embodied

in Part III of the Constitution. The Court is entrusted with judicial powers under

Article 32 a