Supreme Court of India

State of A.P. Etc. v. Thakkidiram Reddy and Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1998] 3 S.C.R. 1088

Bench M.K. Mukherjee and D.P. Wadhwa JJ.

Decided 11 August 1998

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was not at all justified in acquitting A2 to AS and A9 of the charges p under Sections 148 and 302/149 !PC.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Indian penal code, 1860-Sections 148 and 149-Common object Determination of -Not essential to establish individual's overt act. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 464 and 465-Misjoinder of Charges-Effect of Failure of justice-Meaning of. The prosecution case is that there was long standing enmity between the party of the accused and the party of the deceased. On August I 0/11, 1990, at or about I a.m., 21 accused persons armed with crow-bar, sticks and other deadly weapons broke open the door and entered the house of the deceased. Al assaulted the deceased with a plough rod

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
1955 Willie (william) Slaney v. The State of Madhya Pradesh. cited by 64

Where later benches applied it

2011 S. Ganesan v. Rama Raghuraman &.ors relied on
2014 Anup Lal Yadav & Anr. v. State of Bihar referred to
2012 Bhimanna v. State of Karnataka referred to
2011 Prithipal Singh Etc v. State of Punjab & Anr. Etc. referred to
2020 Indore Development Authority v. Manoharlal & Ors. Etc. mentioned
2018 Kamil v. State of Uttar Pradesh mentioned
2018 Indore Development Authority v. Shailendra (dead) through Lrs. & Ors. mentioned
2016 Anant Prakash Sinha @ Anant Sinha v. State of Haryana & Anr. mentioned
2013 Union of India and Others v. Sanjay Jethi and Another mentioned
2013 Sanjay Dutt (a-117) v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi (stf), Bombay mentioned
2010 Abdul Sayeed v. State of Madhya Pradesh mentioned
2010 Main Pal v. State of Haryana mentioned
2009 Sanichar Sahni v. The State of Bihar mentioned
2005 Gurpreet Singh v. State of Punjab mentioned
2003 State of Rajasthan v. Nathu and Ors. mentioned
2002 Krishna Mochi and Ors. v. State of Bihar Etc. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to · 12 mentioned

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