Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 85 · Decided 3 February 1997
State of Up v. Dan Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 85 · [1997] 1 S.C.R. 764
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 442/1989
- Decided
- 3 February 1997
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, B.N. KIRPAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 303, 307, 436, 325, 34, 141; CrPC
Headnote
Criminal Law: Penal Code, 1860: Sections 302, 303, 307, 436 r/w Sections 149 and C 141 Explanation-Unlawful assembly-Common object-Inference of-Mar­ riage party of Scheduled Caste attacked by a large number of persons amied with sticks and stones which resulted in death of 14 persons and used-In the circumstances of the case, it could 1101 be said that the attackers had a similar object but not a common D object-Even if the assembly was initially lawful the same became u11lawful when riot stmted after a member of accused pmty was injured:-Protectio11 of Civil Rights Act.
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