Supreme Court · 1956 INSC 21 · Decided 5 April 1956
Sukha and Others v. The State of RAJASTHAN.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1956 INSC 21 · [1956] 1 S.C.R. 288
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 133/1955
- Decided
- 5 April 1956
- Bench
- N. CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR, VIVIAN BOSE, B. JAGANNADHADAS (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 325, 149, 302
Headnote
[1956] Unlawful Assembly- 11 Common intention" and "Common object" -Distinction-Duty of a Court of fact-Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860), ss. 8!,, 149. Common intention reqnired by s. 34 of the Indian Penal Code and common object set out under s. 149, though they sometimes In a case under s. 149 there need not be a prior concert and meeting of minds, it is enough that each has the same object in view and their number is five or more and they a.ct a.s an assembly to achieve that object. When a crowd assembles and there is e.n uproar and people are killed and
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