Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 261 · Decided 14 December 1978
Mohinder Pal Jolly v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 261 · [1979] 2 S.C.R. 805
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 118/1972
- Decided
- 14 December 1978
- Bench
- N.L. UNTWALIA, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Act 45 of 1860) Ss. 99, IOI, 103, 302, 303 and 304. Factory owner fired from revolver on workers agitating for ·wages outside factory-Death of a worker-Accused claiming right of private defence of pro­ perty and person-Right when available-Accused if should be There was h dispute between the appellant, a factory owner and his em- C ployees in regard to wages, during the period of their lay-off. The prosecution alleged that on the day of th~ occurrence when the workers gathered outside the factory and raised innocuous slogans demanding their wages, the
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