Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 327 · Decided 7 March 2019
Sukumaran v. State REP. BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 327 · [2019] 4 S.C.R. 660
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5/2009
- Decided
- 7 March 2019
- Bench
- ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, R. SUBHASH REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 96to106, 96, 97; Arms Act Section 3
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w ss.109 and 203 - Prosecution case was that appellant-A-1 was working as Forest Range Officer - On the fateful day, while he was on duty and going in his official jeep along with co-accused, the driver of his jeep, he noticed four PW1, PW2 and one cleaner) in a lorry - Suspecting smuggling of sandalwood, he chased them and after some distance when the lorry stopped and the driver of the lorry and his associates started running, he fired a gun shot from his DBL-gun which hit the driver causing his death - It was
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