Supreme Court of India

Kailash Nath v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2010] 3 S.C.R. 599
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and J.M. Panchal JJ.
Decided 10 December 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that these observations are way beyond the record and merely because some of the accused who had not caused any B injuries to the deceased or the witnesses would not mean that they were not present and it is only as a matter of abundant caution that the benefit has been given to those accused.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 3021149 and 3071149 - Eight persons involved in c causing death of one of the victims and injuring the other by gunshots - Conviction by· trial court - High . Court convicting only one accused who fired the shots and acquitting others giving them.benefit of doubt- Plea that since the High Court itself had opined false implication of other persons who had 0 not caused injuries, accused should also be acquitted - HELD: Merely because some of the accused who had not caused any injuries to the deceased or the witnesses have been given benefit of doubt would not mean that

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