Supreme Court of India

State of West Bengal v. Mir Mohammad Omar and Ors. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 712

Bench K.T. Thomas and R.P. Sethi JJ.

Decided 29 August 2000

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the appeal filed by the State and dismiss the appeals filed by the convicted persons.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302 and 364 read with Section 34- Abduction-Murder-Offence of-DeceCf!t!d abducted by the accused pro claiming that he would be finished off-Deceased found dead within a couple of hours of his abduction-Bush shirt worn by deceased at the time of abduction recovered at the instance of one of the accused-Aforesaid circum stances succes~fully established by the Prosecution-Held, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the deceased was abducted by the accused and, he was found murdered within a short time thereafter, the permitted reasoning process would

Where later benches applied it

2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh relied on
2024 Anees v. The State Govt. of Nct relied on
2023 Balvir Singh v. State of Uttarakhand relied on
2023 Wazir Khan v. State of Uttarakhand relied on
2022 Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2016 Dhal Singh Dewangan v. State of Chhattisgarh relied on
2014 Raj Kumar v. State of M.P. relied on
2013 Gian Chand & Ors. v. State of Haryana relied on
2012 Tulshiram Sahadu Suryawanshi & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2016 Jamnadas v. State of M.P. referred to
2014 State of Rajasthan v. Thakur Singh referred to
2012 Sandeep v. State of U.P. referred to
2012 Neel Kumar @ Anil Kumar v. The State of Haryana referred to
2011 Prithipal Singh Etc v. State of Punjab & Anr. Etc. referred to

Of those, 9 relied on · 6 referred to

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