Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 305 · Decided 28 March 2023
Pulen Phukan & ORS. v. The State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 305 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 616
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 906/2016
- Decided
- 28 March 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326, 147, 148, 149, 447, 34; CrPC Section 173(2)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : ss. 302, 326, 147, 148, 149, 447 and 34 - Murder - Unlawful Assembly - Complainant-PW 1's case that 13 persons entered her house and caused grievous injury to her brother-in-law PW 2 and three of them assaulted the weapons resulting in his death - Trial conducted against 11 of them - Courts below convicted them u/s. 147/148/ 447/323/302/149 and sentenced them to imprisonment for life u/ss. 302/149 along with other punishment for the charged offences - On appeal, held: Prosecution is not to
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