Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 490 · Decided 9 August 2010
Virendra Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 490 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 772
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1316/2002
- Decided
- 9 August 2010
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r.w. s.34 - Murder- Vicarious liability - Appellant along with his father and brother armed C with weapons went to the house of the deceased - After verbal altercation, appellant and his father started beating the son of the deceased - When deceased intervened, the brother father, fired at the deceased which resulted in his death - Conviction of all the three D accused by courts below by invoking of s.34 - Challenged by appellant - Held: All the three accused in consonance with a prearranged plan had gone to the house of the deceased - They all were armed with
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