Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 115 · Decided 28 February 2012
Surendra and Others v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 115 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 1168
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 2874/2008
- Decided
- 28 February 2012
- Bench
- RAJENDRA MAL LODHA, H.L. GOKHALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 302, 149, 3021149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c s. 3021149 - 'Common object' to cause the death - Held: Inference of common object has to be drawn from various factors such as the weapons with which the members were armed, their movements, the acts of violence committed by them and the result - The prosecution, from the has been able to establish that all the members of the unlawful assembly acted in furtherance of the common object to cause the death of the victim. Four petitions in the instant special leave petitions along with another accused were prosecuted for E commission of offences punishable u/ss 147,
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