Supreme Court · [2017] 7 S.C.R. 251 · Decided 9 July 2017
State of Haryana v. Krlshan & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [2017] 7 S.C.R. 251
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 847/2006
- Decided
- 9 July 2017
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, ASHOK BHUSHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 120B; Evidence Act Section 7
Headnote
A .B Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r!w s.120B; s.328 - Hooch tragedy - Sale of poisonous liquor - Prosecution case was that 36 persons lost their life and 44 persons lost their eye sight after C consuming poisonous liquor purchased from a licenced vends of the responden_ts - Conviction of challenged conviction before High Court - High Court acquitted the respondents on the ground that there was no evidence to connect_Jhe respondents with the consumption of methyl alcohol by the victims - High Court also D indicted appellant-State for its negligence and directed State to pay
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