Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 297 · Decided 11 December 1972
Deo Narain v. The State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 297 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 57
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 192/1969
- Decided
- 11 December 1972
- Bench
- I.D. DUA, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 102
Headnote
Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), Ss. 100 and 102-Right of pri­ vate defence-Scope of. There was a clash between the parties of the accused and complai­ nant over the possession of certain land; in which the appellant inflicted a fatal spear injury on the chest of the deceased. In • court and the High Court found that the party of the complaina:nt had deliberately come to forcibly prevent or obstruct the possession of. the accused persons, and that such forcible obstruction and pm-ention were unlawful. But while the trial Court acquit~ all the accused on the ground that
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