Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 51 · Decided 23 January 2018
Dashrath @ Jolo & ANR. ETC. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 51 · [2018] 1 S.C.R. 368
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 197/2018
- Decided
- 23 January 2018
- Bench
- R.K. AGRAWAL, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w s.149 - Murder - Unlawful assembly - On facts, death of three persons and injuries to two by the appellants - Appellants found guilty of forming unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapons, with the common object to commit murder to commit murder of PW 19 - Conviction u/s. 302 read with s. 149 and sentenced to life imprisonment as also convicted for other offences - High Court upheld the order of the trial court - On appeal, held: Both the trial court as well as the High Court accepted the evidence
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