Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 397 · Decided 9 July 2010
Sikandar Singh & ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 397 · [2010] 8 S.C.R. 373
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 227/2007
- Decided
- 9 July 2010
- Bench
- D.K. JAIN, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 149, 148
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 3021149 and 3071149- Murder and attempt to murder c - 'Common object' - Eight accused armed with guns and other lethal weapons - One of them fired at the victims - One of the victims died at the spot - Another received injuries but survived - Vicarious liability of other assembly had common 0 object, it is not necessary that all persons forming unlawful assembly must be shown to have committed some overt act - 'Common object' does not require a prior concert and a com_mon meeting of minds before the attack - Ingredients of s~t49 - Explained - Both the courts
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