Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 43 · Decided 19 January 2005
Sunil Kumar and ANR. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 43 · [2005] 1 S.C.R. 612
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 123/2005
- Decided
- 19 January 2005
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, I 860 : .. Section 302 rlw 149-Murder-Unlawful assembly-Common object- • c Eight accused arriving together in a jeep and surrounding deceased-Jeep kept in starting position-One accused inflicting several blows with knife on abdomen of deceased-Other seven, i.e. appellants consequences-Accused fleeing after the incident in the same jeep-Conviction D of appellants under S.302 r/w S. I 49-Justification-Held, Courts below justified in applying S.149 to the case of appellants and convicting them-When several persons armed with weapons assault a victim, all of them
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