Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 250 · Decided 30 March 2017
Ganesh Shamrao Andekar & ANR. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 250 · [2017] 5 S.C.R. 277
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 547/2007
- Decided
- 30 March 2017
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 386
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- s.302 rlw s.34 - Murder -Appeal against the acquittal by trial court - Scope for interference - Appellants and victim-deceased were neighbours - There was enmity between them - Prosecution case that after a heated exchange, appellants chased down the deceased and assaulted him were chasing deceased, his wife (PW-13) and daughter (PW-2) had followed them and had witnessed the assault - PW-2 took deceased to the ho~pital where he succumbed to the injuries - Trial court acquitted all the accused - High Court, however, convicted the appellants and two others uls.302 r!w
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