Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 773 · Decided 20 October 2011
Pancho v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 773 · [2011] 12 S.C.R. 1173
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1050/2005
- Decided
- 20 October 2011
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 392, 396, 34; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B ss.302, 302134 and 392 - Four accused stated to have c caused death of a tractor owner and taken away his tractor - Five months later extra-judicial confession stated to have been made by one of the accused - Three accused arrested and fourth died meanwhile - A country made from the accused - o Conviction by trial court - Life imprisonment to two accused and sentence of death awarded to the accused who was stated to have shot at the deceased - High Court commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment - Appeals by two accused - Held: The extra-judicial
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