Supreme Court of India

Dhanaj Singh @ Shera and Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 938
Bench Dorais W Amy Raju and Arijit Pasaya T JJ.
Decided 10 March 2004

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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