Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 285 · Decided 9 March 2022
State of M.P. v. Ramji Lal Sharma & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 285 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 754
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 293/2022
- Decided
- 9 March 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w s.34 - Murder - Common Intention - Trial Court held that all the four accused shared the common intention to kill the deceased, and convicted them u/s.302 r/w s.34 - High Court allowed appeal of accused no.1 and 3 by giving them benefit of doubt and by observing that there was a contradiction in the ocular and medical evidence and therefore their presence itself was doubtful - According to High Court, three eye witnesses stated that respondent No.1 and 2 were having axe in their hands, and they
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