First-Time Theft Location Claim in Court: Does It Hold Legal Weight?

In fact the district judge in his judgement says " it would seem that all 7 accused have planned jointly with one common purpose to commit this theft". ... accused of committing any offence and another of abetment of or attempt to commit such offence, they may be charged and tried together or separately as the court thinks fit; and the provisions contained in the former part of this chapter shall apply to all such charges". ... The first point that arises for decision is whether in the event of i....

The Penal Code enacts that: " Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable property out of the possession of any person without that person's consent, moves that property in order to such taking, is said to commit ' theft'; and the meaning of " dishonestly " is stated in section 22: " Whoever ... He intended to cause loss to the owner, who, if the accused could satisfy the Court or Village Tribunal that the bull was trespassing, would have to pay something under the Cattle Trespass Ordinance in order to get his ....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 6886

On that premise, the first respondent Police registered the case for theft under Section 303(2) of the BNS, 2023. 4. ... The statutory conception of theft (in substance) requires dishonest taking of movable property out of the possession of any person without consent and moving it in order to such taking. ... The FIR, as placed before this Court, does not indicate (i) from whose possession the M-sand was allegedly removed, (ii) from which location/quarry it was allegedly stolen, (iii) whether any quar....

It has therefore been established that he had been in possession of some of the stolen property within a short time of the theft, and he has offered no explanation of this incriminating circumstance. ... They were jointly charged- (a) with having committed house-breaking by night on December 31,1949, by entering into a Magazine belonging to the Morrison Knudson International Corporation at Inginiyagala in order to commit theft; (b) with having, in the course of the same transaction ... I shall deal fir....

2025 5 Supreme 616

— A person abets the doing of a thing, who— First.—Instigates any person to do that thing; or Secondly. ... B, acting under this misconception, does not take dishonestly, and therefore does not commit theft. But A is guilty of abetting theft, and is liable to the same punishment as if B had committed theft. Explanation 4. ... The first illustration cited is this: If A, a close relative of the public servant tells him of how other p....

Section 122 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code tells us when a criminal Court may send for the statements made to a Police officer or inquirer, adding that the Court " may use such statements or information, not as evidence in the case but to aid it in such inquiry or trial". ... The fresh charge appears in Summary Form 1B and involves certain new matter, namely, that the accused committed theft or, alternatively, breach of trust of " one B. D. ... He took the 6 packets because he regarded them as of no value#H....

2025 Supreme(US)(ca6) 26

Take it from Judge Thapar, who tells us that Ohio’s robbery statute, on its “face[],” “criminalize[s] conduct that doesn’t necessarily entail ordinary theft (taking something of value from another).” Thapar Dissent at 59. ... Based on the plain language of the robbery statute, which incorporates the numerous Ohio theft offenses, a defendant can be convicted of robbery without obtaining something of value. Several theft offenses do not require obtaining something of v....

2025 Supreme(US)(ca6) 22

Take it from Judge Thapar, who tells us that Ohio’s robbery statute, on its “face[],” “criminalize[s] conduct that doesn’t necessarily entail ordinary theft (taking something of value from another).” Thapar Dissent at 59. ... Based on the plain language of the robbery statute, which incorporates the numerous Ohio theft offenses, a defendant can be convicted of robbery without obtaining something of value. Several theft offenses do not require obtaining something of v....

It is, I think, clear that, so far as the appellant is concerned, it is impossible to sustain the charge of theft. The evidence is that, at the time the appellant first came to take part in the transaction out of which this case arose, the offence of theft has already been committed. ... Where an accused person is charged with the offence of theft under section 367 of the Penal Code, the Court has no power to convict him of the offence of assisting in the dis....

For, if the possession be evidence that the person committed the robbery, and the person who committed the robbery committed the other crime, then it is evidence that the person in whose possession the property is found committed that other crime. ... [COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.] 1944 Present: Howard C.J., Keuneman and de Kretser JJ. THE KING v. P. A. WILLIAM PERERA et al, 49-M.C. Gampaha 18,370. ... The nature of the article stolen, the time within which if was discovered, the improbable or u....

2018 0 Supreme(P&H) 1915

However, it is not the guess-work which is mandated, but it is ‘reasonable satisfaction’. Likewise, there cannot be any ‘reason’ and, therefore, the ‘reasonable ground’ to believe that if a person has committed ten offences, he is again likely to commit the offence. But it has to be kept in mind that the second, third, fourth and the Nth offence is always committed by an accused only after first, having committed the first offence. It can occur to mind that if a person is a first offender then he is not likely to commit an offence again or that if a person has committed, say; ten o....

2015 0 Supreme(Cal) 245

In the case of Aradhun Mundal (supra), the cattle which were seized were grazing on fallow land. The Court, on evidence held that the accused persons did not intend to commit theft. In the case of Jhaman Lal & Ors., (supra), ten cattle were taken away by the accused persons from the house of the complainant to the cattle pound thereafter. They were not taken to the nearest pound but to one in another district at some distance.

2014 0 Supreme(Del) 1459

Also, merely because a person indicted of a theft cannot take away the liability of the Railways existing as per Sections 123 (c) and 124(A) of the Railways Act, 1989 because the sections do not provide that if a person is convicted then in such cases, on account of his death in an untoward incident, compensation will not be paid. 8. The final conclusion of the Tribunal, as already stated earlier is a very specious one that the deceased was suspected to have been arrested in the village in the case of theft earlier and this aspect goes against the deceased Anuj Kumar. First of all,....

2010 6 Supreme 548

The reason of my annoyance is that I am falsely involved as I did not commit any theft. I have a faith that this allegation is false, accused Montu and his accomplices will be arrested and I will be declared as innocent.

2010 0 Supreme(SC) 730

I have a faith that this allegation is false, accused Montu and his accomplices will be arrested and I will be declared as innocent. The reason of my annoyance is that I am falsely involved as I did not commit any theft.