Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 68 · Decided 13 March 1975
Phool Kumar v. Delhi Administration
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 68 · [1975] 3 S.C.R. 917
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 62/1971
- Decided
- 13 March 1975
- Bench
- A. ALAGIRISWAMI, N.L. UNTWALIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 397, 398, 342, 392
Headnote
917 Penal Code-Ss. 397 and 398-Scope of-Meaning of the words 'uses' in s. 397 and 'is armed with any deadly weapon' in s. 398. The appellant, alongwith two others, was alleged to have raided a petrol pump sometime after midnight and decamped with the cash. At the time of the raid he was armed with associates fired three shots. His associates were acquitted but the appellant was convicted of an offence under ss. 397 read with 342 J.P.C. and sentenced to. undergo imorisonment for seven years, which was the minimum sentence. The High Court dismissed his appeal. · On further appeal it
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