Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 71 · Decided 2 June 1983
State of U.P. v. Pussu @ Ram Kishore
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 71 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 294
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 384/1974
- Decided
- 2 June 1983
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
' Penal Code-Section 302-HiCh Court-If could conduct a mock sc,ene of· occurrence in the Court. Right of self-defence-Aggressor-If could claim right. I .Acquittal of one of two. accused-If would bar conviction of the s~cond. The prosecution case against the accllsed-re5pondent was -that field, he and thi~ co­ accused armed with a gun and a country-made pistol fired at the. deceased causing him injuries,_ that some passersby, including the two eye witnesses, overpowered the respondent but that he escaped· from tlreir hold and ran towards the co-accused who then was
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