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Vyas Ram @ Vyas Kahar & Ors. v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2013] 11 S.C.R. 212

Bench A.K. Patnaik and H.L. Gokhale JJ.

Decided 20 September 2013

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Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 - s.3(1) - Retaliatory attack by group of extremists leading c tq death of 35 persons and injury to 7 persons - Accused appellants convicted and sentenced to death - Justification - Held: On facts, even if deficiencies in the prosecution are ignored, prosecution case against appellant no. 2 is rather weak - His name not mentioned in the FIR - PW-2 injured witness 0 failed to identify appellant no.2 in Court - None of the other witnesses including PW-3, another injured witness, attributed any role to him - In the circumstances,

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab cited by 60
2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka cited by 55
2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 54
1994 Hitendra Vishnu Thakur and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. cited by 40
2002 Krishna Mochi and Ors. v. State of Bihar Etc. cited by 11
1996 Binay Kumar Singh v. The State of Bihar cited by 10
1973 Jamuna Chaudhari & Ors. v. State of Bihar cited by 2
2007 Vijaykumar Baldev Mishra @sharma v. St Ate of Maharashtra cited by 2
1989 Baldev Raj Sharma v. Bar Council of India & Ors. cited by 2
2002 Bihari Manjhi and Ors. v. State of Bihar cited by 1
1990 Dilaver Hussain Son of Mohammadbhal Laliwala Etc. v. State of Gujarat and Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2023 Ranvir Singh Etc. Etc. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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