Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 332 · Decided 31 October 1990
Brathi Alias Sukhdev Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 332 · [1990] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 503
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 332/1979
- Decided
- 31 October 1990
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302, 326; CrPC Section 386(l)(h)
Headnote
_Indian Penal Code-Sections 34 and 302-Criminal liability-­ Primarily attaches to person who actually commits the offence-Several persons alleged to have commitied offence in furtherance of common intention-All except one acquitted-Open to appellate court /0 reappraise evidence. A B c The the murder of one Socha Singh. The case of the prosecution was that the appellant and Teja Singh in furtherance of their common intention attacked the deceased Socha Singh on 1st Jannary 1975 when he was returning home from his D field accompained by his daughter and son (PWs 8 and 9). It
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