Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 584 · Decided 26 April 1996
Harijan Dhana Badha and ORS. ETC. ETC. v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 584 · [1996] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 36
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 592/1987
- Decided
- 26 April 1996
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
cn·minal Law : Indian Penal Code 186()--Sections 148, 149 & 302:--Rioting with deadly C wcapom~ommon object-Two eye witnesse;-All accused amied with deadly weapons-Attack resulting in the death of one person-Held, there was a conunon intention to conunit Murder and hence all accused of D in prosecution of their common object. The D Trial Court acquitted eight of them and convicted A2, A6 and A7 under section 302 !PC. The Trial Court relied upon the evidence of two eye witnesses namely P.Ws. 1 & 3 and the medical evidence. The Trial Court held that the P.Ws. 1 and 3
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