Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 665 · Decided 1 October 2013
Kishan Ram & ORS. v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 665 · [2013] 10 S.C.R. 405
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1196/2007
- Decided
- 1 October 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 rlw s. 149 and s. 147 - Murder - Assault with lathis and dandas leading to death - Five accused including the three appellants - Conviction of C appellants by Courts below - Justification - Held: On facts, justified -Evidence of the three eye-witnesses (PWs1, 2 and 6) of PW-1 in the FIR within four hours of the incident clearly establish that the five accused persons including the three appellants had D assaulted the deceased with lathis and dandas when the hands and legs of the deceased were tied with a rope - PW- 3, PW-4 and PW-7 supported the prosecution
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