Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 79 · Decided 24 January 2023
Prasad Pradhan & ANR. v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 79 · [2023] 1 S.C.R. 241
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2025/2022
- Decided
- 24 January 2023
- Bench
- KRISHNA MURARI, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 323, 304, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w s.34 - Murder - Prosecution case that appellant/accused and the victim were cousins - On the afternoon of 28.02.2012, when the victim was getting his land levelled through a JCB machine, the appellants (A-1 and A-2) reached the place and armed with an axe and he attacked the victim on the head - Against A-2, the allegation was that he was armed with an axe and had assaulted the victim on the legs - Regarding A-3, the grandson of A-1 and son of A-2, the allegation was that he went to the spot and caught hold of the
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