Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 396 · Decided 14 September 1999
State Through Cbi, Delhi v. Gian Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 396 · [1999] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 382
- Case number
- DEATH REFERENCE CASE No. 3/1998
- Decided
- 14 September 1999
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, S.P. KURDUKAR, K.T. THOMAS (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Constitution Article 20(1)
Headnote
Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985-Ss.3 (1) & .._ (2) and 1 (3). C Assassination of Sikh Sant-Operation Blue Star-Signing of accord by the then Prime Minister and a Sikh Sant-Rival extremist group opposing the accord, conspiring to kill the Sant-Firing and injuring the and sentence by Designated Court D -On appeal, Held,· the act of assailants was a "terrorist act" Within the ambit of S.3(1)-Designated Court rightly held that accused was one of the assailants who fired at Sant-Conviction confirmed-Penal Code, 1860- S. 302
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