Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 223 · Decided 17 September 1976
Harshad Singh@ Baba Pahalvan Singh Thakura v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 223 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 626
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 254/1976
- Decided
- 17 September 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 135
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, S. 34-Specific evidence for infliction of falal wound not • l"eq11ired-Comm11nity nf intent with participatory presence fixes col!S'l"llctive liability. Practice find proced11re-/11terference with findinus on reliability of Cl'idence oulv in exceptional Court for offences punishable under s. 302 read with s. 34 l.P.C. and s. 135 of the Bombay Police Act. Two of the accused were acquitted by the Sessions Court and one by the High Court. having been given the benefit of doubt of identity. The appellant contended before this Court that there was
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