Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 802 · Decided 24 July 2019
Postman Vengaisamy & ORS. v. State Represented BY Inspector of Police & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 802 · [2019] 9 S.C.R. 1115
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1234/2010
- Decided
- 24 July 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 342, 324
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Fifteen accused - Prosecution case was that there was history of previous attack on complainant party - On the fateful day, all the accused armed with weapons surrounded PW-1, PW-2 and the deceased - A-11 instigated the other accused to cut - Pursuant to that, they were attacked whereby A-13 chopped the left hand below elbow of PW-1 whereas A-6 hit left shoulder of PW-2 while the victim-deceased was attacked on several parts of his body with sword by the accused persons - PW-1 and PW-2 escaped from the clutches of
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