Supreme Court · 1964 INSC 190 · Decided 21 September 1964
Shankarlal Kachrabhai and Others v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1964 INSC 190 · [1965] 1 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 191/1962
- Decided
- 21 September 1964
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, J.C. SHAH, S.M. SIKRI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 301
Headnote
KACHRABHAI AND OTHERS B v. STATE OF GUJARAT September 21, 1964 (K. SUBBA RAo, J. C. SHAH ANDS. M. SIKRI JJ.) Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 0 1860), ss. 34, 301 and 302-Scope of-"Criminal act" in s. 34, meaning of. Where four persons shot at the deceased with the intention of of killing the deceased in furtherance of their common intention to kill the other, and there would not be any necessity to invoke s. 301 of the Code to find them guilty. In fact that section would apply only to cases where there was no intention to cause the death, or knowledge that death was
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