Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 306 · Decided 26 November 1976
Ram Rattan and ORS. v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 306 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 232
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 282/1971
- Decided
- 26 November 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326, 34, 447, 324, 323
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, S.' 441, on acco111plishme111 of possession of property by trespasser, whether true owner entitled to dispossess him and plead right to private defence. ~ The complainant Ram Khelawan had illegally encroached upon a portion of a public road and grown a paddy crop on it. A He was in peaceful possession of the land to the knowledge of the appellants who nevertheless went armed and tried to exercise their right over the public road, by passing through the field with their calltle and thereby damaging the crop. The complainants protested and a fight en­
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