Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 451 · Decided 1 July 2015
State of M.P. v. Ashok & Others ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 451 · [2015] 7 S.C.R. 1073
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2096/2009
- Decided
- 1 July 2015
- Bench
- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, UDAY UMESH LALIT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 rlw s. 149 - Murder - Prosecution case that the victim-deceased was caught by C the accused and petrol poured over him and lit fire - Deceased ran from the spot- Respondents surrounded him and attacked him with sword and burning tyre - Trial court convicted all the of 0 doubt to the respondents on the premise that they had reached the spot after the commission of offence and as such the charge of formation of unlawful assembly by them was not established -Appeal against acquittal of respondents - Held: Role cf respondents in the commission of crime was E
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