Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 417 · Decided 21 September 2012
Suresh Sakharam Nangare v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 417 · [2012] 7 S.C.R. 1186
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1606/2008
- Decided
- 21 September 2012
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c ss.302134 and 201134 - A-1 alongwith A-2 and A-3 stated to have committed the· murder of his younger brother by setting him on fire - A-2 turned approver - Trial court convicting A-1and A-3 - Appeal by A-3 only - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment affirmed by the evidence of approver, there is nothing on record to inculpate the appellant - Even if the evidence of approver is accepted, the role attributed to appel/ant is that he caught hold of the legs of the deceased as directed by A-1, after the latter had finished his work of assaulting the
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