Supreme Court of India
Haricharan & Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors,
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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
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Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Thakore Umedsing Nathusing v. State of Gujarat
- 2022 Subramanya v. State of Karnataka
- 2022 Shiv Kumar v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2014 Adambhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri & Ors. v. State of Gujarat
- 2011 Pancho v. State of Haryana
Of those, 5 mentioned
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