Supreme Court of India

Ranjit Singh @ Jita and Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 247
Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and H.K. Sema JJ.
Decided 11 September 2002

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we are unable to sustain the conviction of the appellants.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860/Terrorist and Disruplive Activities (Prevention) Acl, 1987/Arms Act, 1959: Ss. 148, 3071149, 3631149/ss. 3, 5 and 15/s. 25-Alleged encounter- Large scale firing alleged between accused and police party-Accused alleged lo have surrendered-Large number of unauthorised arms and ammunition alleged to have been recovered from accused-Accused prosecuted for respective offences-Confession recorded by police officers under s. 15 of TADA Act-During trial accused and defence witnesses denied prosecution case and stated that they were picked up by police from the village­

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