Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 290 · Decided 21 October 1971
Mohammad Khan & ORS. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 290 · [1972] 2 S.C.R. 152
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 204/1967
- Decided
- 21 October 1971
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, I.D. DUA, SUBIMAL CHANDRA ROY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 148, 307, 149, 302
Headnote
/11c/ian Penal Cude, ss. 96 tu 106---Scopc-RiRht of Private de/c11ce­ Exercisl' of the right n·/u:n justified. B The inhabitants of village S who were all Muslims were divided into two groups. The relations between them were very. muc.h strain~ : so much so that one group ·felt called NS. The C old village S was thereafter called JS. Differences between the two groups, however, remained unresolved and the bitterness did not abate. On the day of Id in February, 1965 residents of both the above villages went to Sanwar Mosque for offering prayers. The people from the
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