Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 337 · Decided 14 August 2002
Munuswamy and ORS. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 337 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 550
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 988/2001
- Decided
- 14 August 2002
- Bench
- N. SANTOSH HEGDE, B.P. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 109, 302, 304, 341
Headnote
Penal Code, I 860: Sections 3021109 and 341-Murder and abetment thereof-Conviction C by courts below-Plea that two of the accused could not be convicted as injury was caused only by third accused-On appeal, held-In the facts and circumstances of the case, the act of third accused cannot be said to is a case of abetment by conspiracy in which all the conspirators participated D at the execution of the plan. Sections 302 and 304-Murder-Conviction under Section 302 by courts below-Plea to convert the conviction under Section 302-Held, injuries on deceased grievous in nature at vital
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