Supreme Court of India

Brathi Alias Sukhdev Singh v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [1990] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 503

Bench Kuldip Singh and M. Fathima Beevi JJ.

Decided 31 October 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was fully justified in re-assessing the evidence with a view to determining if the infirmities pointed out by the trial court while acquitting the co-accused existed on record.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code-Sections 34 and 302-Criminal liability- Primarily attaches to person who actually commits the offence-Several persons alleged to have commitied offence in furtherance of common intention-All except one acquitted-Open to appellate court /0 reappraise evidence. c The appellant and his uncle Teja Singh were tried for an offence under Section 302/34 I.P. . for committing the murder of one Socha Singh. The case of the prosecution was that the appellant and Teja Singh in furtherance of their common intention attacked the deceased Socha Singh on 1st Jannary 1975 when he was

Authorities it was built on

1956 Bimbadhar Pradhan v. The State of Orissa. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2013 Habib v. State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2012 Kuria & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2012 Shyamal Ghosh v. State of West Bengal relied on
2013 B. Raghuvir Acharya v. Central Bureau of Investigation referred to
2011 Nand Kishore v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2022 Jasdeep Singh @ Jassu v. State of Punjab mentioned
1991 Khujji@surendra Tiwari v. The State of Madhya Pradesh mentioned

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to · 2 mentioned

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