Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 220 · Decided 13 February 2025
Vinod @ Nasmulla v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 220 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 80
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1931/2019
- Decided
- 13 February 2025
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 25, 395, 397, 25(1)(b); Evidence Act Section 9; Arms Act Section 25, 25(1)(b), 25(1)(b)(a)
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellant under Section 395 read with Section 397 of the Penal Code, 1860 and Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 is justified. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.395, 397 - Arms Act, 1959 - s.25 - Case of the dacoity where a bus carrying passengers was looted by eight armed men - However, only two including the appellant were tried - Appellant convicted, co-accused acquitted - Conviction of the appellant upheld by High Court - Challenge to: Held: Neither the FIR nor the
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