Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 937 · Decided 7 September 2022
Chaitu Gowala and Another v. The State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 937 · [2022] 7 S.C.R. 190
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 325/2020
- Decided
- 7 September 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 392, 148, 323
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 149 - Appellants alongwith 70 other accused persons were accused of murdering the Managing Director of a company in which they were working - Prosecution examined three eye witnesses who identified the appellants - Trial Court them to life imprisonment - High Court confirmed the conviction - On appeal, held : On considering the disposition of the eye witnesses nothing is forthcoming that appellants caused any injury to the deceased and participated in any manner in commission of the offence -
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