Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 302 · Decided 5 October 1990
Budhwa Alias Ramcharan and ORS. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 302 · [1990] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 101
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 168/1979
- Decided
- 5 October 1990
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 149, 302
Headnote
B Indian Prmal Code, 1860: ss. 147, 149 & 302: Conviction under­ Melee-Particularization of blows given impossible-Nature of injuries received by victim important-Need for observance of utmost care and caution in sifting evidence. The appellants were convicted for offences nnder Ss. 147, motivated.by group rivalry the accused persons numbering over fdleen attacked the deceased with tabbals and lathis while be accompanied by bis mother, PW 1, and sister, PW 5, was on bis way to a nearby village to supply milk. As a result of the injuries sustained the deceased died on the spot.
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