Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 269 · Decided 18 April 2013
Rattiram & ORS. ETC. v. State of M.P. Through Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 269 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 1003
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 223/2008
- Decided
- 18 April 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3021149, 148, 302, 149; CrPC Section 157
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860 s.3021149 - Victim stated to have been assaulted by a number of accused resulting in his death - Conviction - Held: The evidence establishes that five of the accused assaulted the deceased - One of them died before filing of the appeals A B c - Conviction imprisonment of the 0 remaining four is upheld - As far other accused persons are concerned, there are contradictory statements leading to a reasonable doubt with regard to their presence at the place of occurrence and assaulting the deceased - They are accordingly acquitted - Evidence -
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