Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 381 · Decided 21 March 2025
Dhirubhai Bhailalbhai Chauhan & ANR. v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 381 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 904
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 816/2016
- Decided
- 21 March 2025
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 143, 147, 153A, 295, 436, 332, 149
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in reversing the judgment of acquittal passed by the Trial Court qua the appellants; whether in the facts of the case, mere presence of the appellants at the scene of crime, without anything further, was sufficient to of the unlawful assembly. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.143, 147, 153A, 295, 436, 332 - Large rioting crowd comprising of over a thousand people - Six accused-appellants arrested from the crime scene (originally 7 persons were arrested, one died during the trial)
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