Supreme Court of India

Bhagwan Jagannath Markad & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2016] 5 S.C.R. 452
Bench V. Gopala Gowd.A and Adarsh Kumar Goel JJ.
Decided 4 October 2016

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, this appeal is partly allowed to the extent that appellant Nos.7 and 8 (Babu Rama Berad and Balu Naradeo Berad) are given benefit of doubt and are acquitted.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss.147, 149, 302 rlw ss.149, 324 and 326 - Political enmity - Murder of one and injuries to six persons - Acquittal of all accused by trial court on the ground that material witnesses were related or otherwise interested; that there was improvement in the version initially given to police and version put forward before the court; and inconsistency in the evidence of the witnesses in the manner of assault and the weapon used - High court reversed the order of acquittal in case of appellants - On appeal. held: Trial court had adopted perverse approach in mechanically rejecting

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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