Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1177 · Decided 8 October 2009
Pandurang Chandrakant Mhatre & ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1177 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 58
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 986/2007
- Decided
- 8 October 2009
- Bench
- D.K. JAIN, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3021149, 3261149, 148, 149; CrPC Section 154(1)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 3021149, 3261149 and 148 - Conviction under - Rivalry between two political factions - c Accused armed with deadly weapons forming unlawful assembly - Murderous attack on one and injuries to other members - Acquittal by trial court - High Court of five accused and convicting eight accused u/s. 3021149, 3261149, 148 and imposed imprisonment for life and D . different period of sentence - On appeal, held: Order of trial )- court was erroneous - FIR not affected by legal infirmity - Evidence of eye-witnesses corroborated by medical
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