Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 85 · Decided 2 February 2015
Balu S/O Onkar Pund & Others v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 85 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 970
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 175/2015
- Decided
- 2 February 2015
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 rlw s. 149; 304 Part-I - Allegation that accused persons committed murder of PW- C 3's wife - Prosecution case was that PW-3 had purchased land for cattle shed from A-1 - Later their relations became bitter and A-1 started pressurizing PW-3 to vacate the land - On fateful weapons barged in the cattle shed and started removing the iron sheets fixed on roof - D Scuffle took place between PW-3 and accused persons - A- 1 set fire on the cattle shed - Wife of PW-3 present in cattle shed caught fire - When PW-3 tried to save his wife, A-2 inflicted axe blow on him -
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