Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1282 · Decided 26 November 2019
V. Rajaram v. State Represented BY the Inspector of Police CBI/SCB
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1282 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 977
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1765/2019
- Decided
- 26 November 2019
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 217, 221
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.217 and 221 - Prosecution case was that a group of persons (Accused no.1 to 16) armed with dandas (sticks) and iron rods trespassed into the newspaper office and vandalized it and set it on fire - Three employees of the newspaper office got stuck in lost their life - A1 to A16 were charged under IPC, Explosive Substances Act and Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act - Appellant-accused No.17 who was the then jurisdictional Deputy Superintendent of Police was charged for offence under ss.217 and 221 - Case
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