Supreme Court of India

Haricharan & Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors,

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Reported as [2011] 3 S.C.R. 769
Bench B. Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Singh Nijjar JJ.
Decided 9 March 2011

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5 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, we are unable to accept G any of the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties that Mathura was not subjected to electric shock.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Custodial death: Allegation of custodial death against the accused-police officials on the ground that detenu-deceased was kept in illegal custody and subjected to third degree torture for extracting confession that the deceased was guilty of the offence of theft - Conviction ul ss.304 (Part-II), 330 - On appeal, Held: The fact that deceased was tortured and - subjected to electric shock whilst in police custody was Well established by medical evidence - Prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that deceased was taken to the police station and upon his release, the police personnel

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 5 mentioned

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