Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 191 · Decided 11 March 2024
Shahid Ali v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 191 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 377
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1479/2024
- Decided
- 11 March 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 299; CrPC Section 161; Arms Act Section 25, 27
Headnote
In a celebratory firing during a marriage ceremony, the Appellant shot the deceased resulting in his demise. Whether the Appellant could be held guilty of the offence under Section 304 Part I or Part II of the IPC as against Section 302 IPC. Penal Code, 1860 I, 304 Part II - Arms Act, 1959 - s.25, s.27 - Deceased shot with country-made pistol - Succumbed to death after bullet hit the deceased on his neck - FIR registered under s.302 along with s.25, 27 Arms Act - All Eyewitnesses turned hostile - Trial Court based
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