Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 76 · Decided 22 March 1968
Mohar Rai & Bharath Rai v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 76 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 525
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 159/1965
- Decided
- 22 March 1968
- Bench
- R.S. BACHAWAT, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 324, 109, 307; CrPC Section 162, 154, 107; Evidence Act Section 145; Arms Act
Headnote
Cri11linal Trial-Trial Court and High Court refusing to exan1int• ac­ cused's defence- 01i ground. their 1:ersion had already ~been rejected in anot!1er case filed on a complaint by accused-if permissible. Code of Crimirwl Procedure, 1898, ss, 145, 154, 157 & 168-docu- 111e11t document c.dniissible evidence. The first appellant was convicted under s. 324 JPC for shooting and injuring PW I, at the instigation of the second appellant, who was himself convicted of an offence under s. 324 read with s, 109 lPC. The existence of enmity between the appellants and most
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