Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 16 · Decided 20 March 1952
Amjad Khan v. The State
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 16 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 567
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 50/1951
- Decided
- 20 March 1952
- Bench
- SIR SYED FAZL ALI, VIVIAN BOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Set Aside
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 97
Headnote
- S.C.R. SUPREME COURT REPORTS 567 AMJADKHAN v. THE STATE [ SAIYID F AZL Au and VIVIAN BosE JJ.] Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860), ss. 97, 102 and 105- Right of private defence-Reasonable apprehension of death or grievous hurt. A communal riot broke out in a town between some Sindhi refugees Alarm spread to another locality where the shops of appellant and his brother (both Muslims) were situated and the people there, including the appellant, started closing their shops. The family of the appellant's brother had taken shelter in the appellant's portion of the building through a hole
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