Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 202 · Decided 7 April 2000
Rajender Singh and ORS. v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 202 · [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1073
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1183/1997
- Decided
- 7 April 2000
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, R.P. SETHI, SHIVARAJ V. PATIL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 149, 148, 147, 324, 323, 34; Evidence Act Section 145
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Section 302-Conviction under-No unlawful assembly or any common object to cause assault or murder of deceased-Hence conviction altered to one u/s. 302. Sections 302134 & 324-Conviction under-Of one of the appellants- The circumstances under which appellant has been he also shared the common intention with other accused-Therefore conviction u/s. 302134 cannot be D sustained-Hence, convicted Ills. 324. Section 300, Exception 4-Held, in the facts of the case, not proved. Section 34-Common intention and Similar intention-Distinction be­ tween-If the
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