Supreme Court of India

Indira Devi and Ors. v. State of Himachal Pradesh

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Reported as [2016] 3 S.C.R. 568
Bench Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.
Decided 3 June 2016

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Courts below should not have believed the exaggerated and contradictory deposition of the victim qua the appellants in view of the fact that the parties were having land dispute from before and even then in the FIR no specific role was assigned to the appellants while specific role was assigned to two co-accused.

Judgment, page 6

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