Supreme Court of India

Simon and Ors. v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 869
Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and B.N. Agrawal JJ.
Decided 16 October 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we set aside the impugned judgment and B order of the Special Judge of the Designated Court, Mysore.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: Sections 120B, 148, 143, 307, 149 and 302: Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987: Sections 3, 4, 5 and 15 : Arms Act, 1959-Section 25 : Procecution for offences u/ss. l 20B, 148, 302 and 307 lPC and Section 25.of Arms Act-Assault by fire arms on police party-Resulting in 7 deaths and injuries to many-16 eye-witnesses to the incident­ lndentification of 3 of the accused by 2 eye-witnesses-Accused not identified by complainant who was accompanying the 2 eye-witnesses­ Name of the accused not in original but in the altered FIR-Confessional statement by one

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