Supreme Court of India

Yogesh @ Sachin Jagdish Joshi v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2008] 6 S.C.R. 1116

Bench S.B. Sinha and D.K. Jain JJ.

Decided 28 April 2008

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, we are constrained to allow the appeals.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860- ss. 302 rlw 1208 - Murder- Criminal conspiracy-Allegation that Appellant and his family members, c one of their employees and a friend hatched a criminal conspiracy to murder complainant's son as he was to get married to another girl after an affair and alleged marriage with Appellant's sister - Case based on circumstantial evidence, namely, threatening calls from the side of accused 0 to complainant, his family and earlier relationship between the deceased and Appellant's sister - Prayer of Appellant for discharge - Tenability of - Held: On facts, tenable - Mother and

Where later benches applied it

2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. relied on
2014 Chandra Prakash v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2024 Prakash and Others v. The State of Maharashtra and Another referred to
2024 Ram Prakash Chadha v. The State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2013 Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. The State of Maharashtra, through Cbi, Bombay referred to
2011 Noorul Huda Maqbool Ahmed v. Ram Deo Tyagi & Ors. referred to
2011 Mohan Singh v. State of Bihar not applicable

Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to · 1 not applicable

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