Supreme Court of India

State of Rajasthan v. Nathu and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] 3 S.C.R. 967
Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and H.K. Sema JJ.
Decided 28 April 2003

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We are of the view that such submissions should not detain us any longer.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 141, 148, 149, 302, 440, 451 and 454: Murder of two children-Trial of seven accused-Conviction of five of them by the trial court u/s.302 /PC with the aid of Section 149-Acquittal of all except one by the High Court on ground that no avert act has been attributed to the four accused-On appeal, Held: both the trial court and the High Court found accused persons forming an unlawful assembly and armed with lethal weapons-All of them enter~d into the house of the victim by breaking the wall and one of the accused butchered the two children-High Court proceeded on wrong

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