Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 951 · Decided 20 August 2008
Rangnath Sharma v. Satendra Sharma & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 951 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 324
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 553/2001
- Decided
- 20 August 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364; Arms Act Section 34, 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1-860 : . . C s.302 rlw s.34 ·_Murder- Caused by gun-shot injury- Common intention - .Three accused - They took deceased to the place of incident - Main accused fired gun shot after the other two accused held the deceased - .Whether. the two other ace.used were jointly liable shared common o intention with the.-main accuse&' and were thus· liable to be convicl~d uls.302 with the aid of s.34 -Arms Act, .1959 - s.27. . . .. . s .. 34 ...:. Commornntention ~ Principle of joint liab.ility in -( doing of a criminaJ act - Applicability of s. 34_ - Discussed. ~
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