Supreme Court of India

Girija Shankar v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 73
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasa Yat JJ.
Decided 4 February 2004

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Penal Code, 1860: Section 302 rlw section 34-Deceased shot dead by one of the accused other than the appellant-No evidence to show that other accused persons were aware that one of them was canying a gun or that he intended to use it-No role ascribed Lo appellant so far as death of deceased was concerned­ Appellant convicted with other accused for offence under Section 302 read with Section 34-Held, the evidence on record does not show that the accused persons shared the common intention to kill the deceased-Neither the trial court nor the High Court assigned any reason for applying Section

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