Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 734 · Decided 25 September 2024
Manik & ORS. v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 734 · [2024] 9 S.C.R. 724
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1614/2012
- Decided
- 25 September 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, SANJAY KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 330, 331, 342, 343, 348, 354, 385; Evidence Act; Constitution
Headnote
Appellants-convicts are members of the police force and the allegation against them is misuse and abuse of their powers, in resorting to custodial torture of victim-S and tampering with evidence. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 330, 331, 342, 343, 348, 218, all r/w. s.34 - Victim-S was taken into police custody for interrogation - Allegation that he was subjected to third degree torture - Thereafter, a burnt and buried body was found in the forest - Body was unidentified - Prosecution case that appellants-convicts
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