Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 254 · Decided 22 March 2017
Hakeem Khan & ORS. v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 254 · [2017] 2 S.C.R. 735
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 612/2007
- Decided
- 22 March 2017
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.49 - Prosecution case was that there was dispute between the complainant party and accused party due to panchayat elections - On fatefal day, accused persons armed with lathis and farsis intercepted complainant party and attacked them resulting in death of one person on the ground that there were injuries on both the sides; that there were six eye-witnesses including injured eye­ witness but only one of them was an independent witness who however turned hostile; and that two other independent eye witnesses were available but were not examined - High
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