Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 377 · Decided 11 September 2002
Ranjit Singh @ Jita and ORS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 377 · [2002] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 247
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 627/2002
- Decided
- 11 September 2002
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, H.K. SEMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 5, 25; Arms Act Section 25
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860/Terrorist and Disruplive Activities (Prevention) Acl, 1987/Arms Act, 1959: A B Ss. 148, 3071149, 3631149/ss. 3, 5 and 15/s. 25-Alleged encounter- C Large scale firing alleged between accused and police party-Accused alleged lo have surrendered-Large number of unauthorised offences-Confession recorded by police officers under s. 15 of TADA Act-During trial accused and defence witnesses denied prosecution D case and stated that they were picked up by police from the village­ Independent recovery witness declared hostile-Designated Court convicted the
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