Supreme Court of India

George & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Anr.

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Bench M.K. Mukherjee and Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri JJ.
Decided 18 March 1998

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly, we direct that A2 (Rajeev) and A3 (Joshy), who are in jail, be released forthwith unless wanted in connection with any other case.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T M. K. MUKHERJEE, J. George @ Vakkachan, Rajeev and Joshy, the three appellants before us (arrayed as A1 to A3, respectively in the trial Court and hereinafter so referred to) along with four others, (A4 to A7) were put up for trial before an Additional Sessions Judge, Kottayam to answer charges under Section 143, 147, 148, 449, and 302 read with Section 149 I.P. . The gravamina of the charges were that on May 28, 1990 at or about 11 P.M. they formed themselves into an unlawful assembly with the common object of committing the murder of Sasidharan Nair and in prosecution…

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