Supreme Court of India
Debashis Daw & Ors. v. State of West Bengal
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the Courts A below rightly placed reliance on the evidence of PW 2.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 148, 3241149 ands. 304 Part II 149 - Accused armed with deadly weapons forming unlawful assembly and causing injury to one and death of another - Conviction and sentence u/ss. 148, 3241149 ands. 304 Part 11149, by courts below - Interference with - Held: Each of the accused was part of unlawful assembly and armed with deadly weapons, together indulged in indiscriminate beating and freely used weapons in their hands causing severe injuries on the body of deceased - Evidence of injured witness and . PWs 5 and 8-father and mother of deceased was reliable - Medical evidence
Where later benches applied it
- 2016 Saddik @ Lalo Gulam Hussein Shaikh & Ors. v. State of Gujarat
- 2011 Ramachandran & Ors. Etc. v. State of Kerala
- 2023 Ranvir Singh Etc. Etc. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2013 Rattiram & Ors. Etc. v. State of M.P. through Inspector of Police
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to
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