Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 194 · Decided 9 March 2011
Haricharan & ANR. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors,
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 194 · [2011] 3 S.C.R. 769
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 581/2003
- Decided
- 9 March 2011
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 330; Constitution Article 21, 22(1)
Headnote
A B Custodial death: Allegation of custodial death against the accused-police officials on the ground that detenu-deceased C was kept in illegal custody and subjected to third degree torture for extracting confession that the deceased was guilty of the offence of theft - Conviction ul appeal, Held: The fact that deceased was tortured and - subjected to electric shock whilst in police custody was Well D established by medical evidence - Prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that deceased was taken to the police station and upon his release, the police personnel terrorized
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