Supreme Court of India

State of M.P. v. Sughar Singh & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 3 S.C.R. 159
Bench K.G. Balakrishnan, S.H. Kapadia, Altamas Kabir and R.V. Raveendran JJ.
Decided 9 March 2010

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What the Court ordered

In the result, these Curative Petitions are disposed of and G the Criminal Appeal Nos.1362-1363 of 2004 are restored to the file for being heard afresh with a direction that the other four accused (Bhoja, Raghubir, Puran and Balbir) be impleaded as respondents and all accused be served with fresh notices.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 142 rlw Or. XL VII, Supreme Court Rules, 1966 - Curative petition - In the appeals filed by State against acquittal, impleading only four out of eight accused, Supreme Court, by its judgment dated 7. 11. 2008, reversing the acquittal of all the accused including those who were not impleaded as respondents and were not issued notice - HELD: There is a serious violation of principles of natural justice as the acquittal of all the accused has been set aside even though only four of them were respondents before the Court and others were not heard - Judgement

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