Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 777 · Decided 4 September 2018
Yashwant ETC. v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 777 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 654
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 385/2008
- Decided
- 4 September 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 330, 299
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 304 and ss.330,354,355, 342 r/ w. s.34 - Prosecution case was that the police officials took victim into custody in order to extract information regarding a 'loot' in a hotel - It was alleged that police officials caused injuries of extracting confession which led to his death in police custody - Trial Court acquitted all accused police officials (A-1 to 10) u/s. 302 of IPC but convicted them u/ss.330, 354, 355, 342 r/w.34 of IPC - High Court acquitted (A-1 to 9) of the offences punishable u/ss.354,355,
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