Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 537 · Decided 22 November 2012
Bharat Soni ETC. v. State of Chhatisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 537 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 541
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1262/2010
- Decided
- 22 November 2012
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 147, 148 and 3021149 - Murder by seven accused - c Conviction by courts below - Held: Evidence of one eye­ witness was self-contradictory and also at variance with the evidence of the other eye-witness - No convincing and consistent evidence regarding individual overt and fleeing of the accused from the place of 0 occurrence would not be determinative of the liability of the accused uls. 3021149 - It cannot be infe"ed that the accused had common object to murder - Thus, accused-appellants acquitted of offences punishable uls. 3021149 - However, conviction
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