Supreme Court of India
Bharat Soni Etc. v. State of Chhatisgarh
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We are of the view that it F cannot be reasonably inferred that the accused appellants, as members of an unlawful assembly, had any common object to commit the offence of murder of the deceased Vinod.
Judgment, page 13
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Penal Code, 1860: ss. 147, 148 and 3021149 - Murder by seven accused - c Conviction by courts below - Held: Evidence of one eye witness was self-contradictory and also at variance with the evidence of the other eye-witness - No convincing and consistent evidence regarding individual overt act - Recovery of weapons and fleeing of the accused from the place of 0 occurrence would not be determinative of the liability of the accused uls. 3021149 - It cannot be infe"ed that the accused had common object to murder - Thus, accused-appellants acquitted of offences punishable uls. 3021149 - However,
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