Supreme Court of India

Pancho v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2011] 12 S.C.R. 1173

Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.

Decided 20 October 2011

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we set aside the impugned judgment and order.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

PENAL CODE, 1860: ss.302, 302134 and 392 - Four accused stated to have c caused death of a tractor owner and taken away his tractor - Five months later extra-judicial confession stated to have been made by one of the accused - Three accused arrested and fourth died meanwhile - country made pistol and some parts stated to have been recovered from the accused - o Conviction by trial court - Life imprisonment to two accused and sentence of death awarded to the accused who was stated to have shot at the deceased - High Court commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment - Appeals by two

Authorities it was built on

2011 Haricharan & Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors, cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2014 Dhan Raj @ Dhand v. State of Haryana relied on
2013 Tejinder Singh @ Kaka v. State of Punjab relied on
2025 Neelam Kumari v. The State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2022 Chandrapal v. State of Chhattisgarh (earlier M.p.) referred to
2021 Bijender @ Mandar v. State of Haryana referred to
2012 Jagroop Singh v. State of Punjab referred to
2012 Munna Kumar Upadhyaya @ Munna Upadhyaya v. The State of Andhra Pradesh through Public Prosecutor, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh referred to
2025 Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamilnadu mentioned
2023 Pritinder Singh @ Lovely v. The State of Punjab mentioned
2019 Shailendra Rajdev Pasvan and Others v. State of Gujarat Etc. mentioned
2012 Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal mentioned
2012 Sahadevan & Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu mentioned
2017 State of U.P. v. Raghuvir and Anr. Etc. Etc. distinguished

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 5 referred to · 5 mentioned

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