Supreme Court of India
Suresh Sakharam Nangare v. The State of Maharashtra
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the prosecution failed to establish the guilt insofar as the present G appellant (original Accused No. 3) is concerned and the trial Court committed an error in convicting him under Sections 302 and 201 read with Section 34 of IPC and sentencing him to imprisonment for life.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c ss.302134 and 201134 - -1 alongwith -2 and -3 stated to have committed the· murder of his younger brother by setting him on fire - -2 turned approver - Trial court convicting -1and -3 - Appeal by -3 only - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment affirmed by High Court -- Held: 0 Except the evidence of approver, there is nothing on record to inculpate the appellant - Even if the evidence of approver is accepted, the role attributed to appel/ant is that he caught hold of the legs of the deceased as directed by -1, after the latter had finished his work of assaulting the
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Vasant @ Girish Akbarasab Sanavale & Anr. v. The State of Karnataka
- 2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2019 Jagdish and Another v. The State of Haryana
- 2017 Vijendra Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- 2014 Raju @ Devendra Choubey v. State of Chhatisgarh
Of those, 5 referred to
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