Supreme Court of India

State of Andhra Pradesh v. Veddula Veera Reddy and Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1998] 1 S.C.R. 1007
Bench M.K. Mukherjee, S.P. Kurdukar and K.T. Thomas JJ.
Decided 19 February 1998

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What the Court ordered

In the result Criminal Appeal Nos. 1631-32 of 1996 filed by the State of A.P. are allowed.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 149, 302, 304 Part I and 326- Afurder-Accused entering into the room of deceased with deadly weapons at the dead hours of night-Assaulted the deceased causing his instant death-Evidence of eye witnesses-Corroboration by medical evidence- Conviction and sentence by Trial Court- -On appeal, High Court altered the conviction on the ground that prosecution had failed to prove the common intention of the accused-Validity of-Held, accused were members of unlm1ful assembly sharing common object to assault the deceased-Identified by all the eye witnesses-Evidence of

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