Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 166 · Decided 22 March 2001
Sucha Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 166 · [2001] 2 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 24/2001
- Decided
- 22 March 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 362, 34; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302, 362 and 34-Abduction and murder-Appellant and three others forcibly took away the deceased during the days of militancy in Punjab as their father was suspected to be a police tout-Father of the deceased had sensed danger and hid in tile same house-Bodies of sons staying at another City-Special Court awarded life imprisonment-On appeal Held, a series of circumstances especially in the backdrop of terrorism in Punjab prove that the deceased were murdered to pursue a specific motive­ Parents of the deceased we're present in the house when they
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