Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 918 · Decided 28 November 2006
Sadashio Mundaji Bhalerao v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 918 · [2006] SUPP. 9 S.C.R. 733
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 478/2005
- Decided
- 28 November 2006
- Bench
- G.P. MATHUR, A.K. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 224
Headnote
B .I) Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 rlw ss. 34 and 201134-Custodial death-A person involved in a dacoity case stated to have been beaten to death by police-Prosecution C of I 7 police officials of the police station-Deceased last seen in their custody-Acquittal by trial court-Conviction by High and the manner in which they described the beating, inference of commission of crime by police officials cannot be drawn-Dead D body found could not be established as that of victim-The view taken by trial court appears to be just and proper and on facts it was not proper for High Court to
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