Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 716 · Decided 9 July 1996
Harish Kumar and ANR. v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 716 · [1996] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 296
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 572/1986
- Decided
- 9 July 1996
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, SUJATA V. MANOHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 97, 307, 34; Evidence Act Section 32
Headnote
Oiminal Law : Penal Code, 1860: Section 97. P1ivate defence of person-Right of-:-Accused and their father suffered pellet injwies~Accused becoming apprehensive of danger to himself and his family meinbm· fired one shot on deceased-Accused look plea of p1ivate defenc(f-Held : In peculiar of private defenc(f-Some un­ jJleasantness had occiured earlier and tlzat nienzbers of coniplainant party started assembling near house of accused-No indiscriminate filing but only one shot fired by accused-In the circumstances of the case, the possibility could not be mled out that the
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