Supreme Court of India

Harbhajan Singh and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Anr.

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Reported as [2009] 11 S.C.R. 1015
Bench S.B. Sinha J.
Decided 29 July 2009

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.319 - Exercise of power under - Suicide - Dying declaration - Charge-sheet against appellant no.2's brother - Application u/s.319 - Appellants summoned by Sessions Judge as additional accused - Justification of - Held: On facts, justified - In the dying declaration, not only appellant no.2's brother but the appellants too were named as persons responsible for death of the deceased - May be the appellants were not charge- ;. sheeted, but the same, by itself, was not sufficient ground for the Sessions Judge to decline to exercise its jurisdictien to add

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