Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 643 · Decided 20 September 2013
Vyas Ram @ Vyas Kahar & ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 643 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 212
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 791/2009
- Decided
- 20 September 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, H.L. GOKHALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 - s.3(1) - Retaliatory attack by group of extremists leading c tq death of 35 persons and injury to 7 persons - Accused­ appellants convicted and sentenced to death - Justification - Held: On facts, even if deficiencies in the appellant no. 2 is rather weak - His name not mentioned in the FIR - PW-2 injured witness 0 failed to identify appellant no.2 in Court - None of the other witnesses including PW-3, another injured witness, attributed any role to him - In the circumstances, appellant no.2 deserves acquittal -
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