Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 325 · Decided 2 August 2002
Dhupa Chamar and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 325 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 412
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1087/2000
- Decided
- 2 August 2002
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, B.N. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 323, 3021149, 300, 148, 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Sections 323, 3021149, 300 and 148: Murder by causing solitary injury-Clause thirdly of Section 300-- . C Applicability of-Held, accused intentionally aimed and inflicted the injury with deadly weapons in the chest of deceased with the force sufficient to cause death-Confirmed by it can be inferred that such a solitary injury inflicted upon the deceased is sufficient in the D ordinary course of nature to cause death-Clause thirdly, Section 300 attracted E F Unlawful assembly-Formation of-Held, when three out of seven accused were acquitted of the charge and no
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