Supreme Court of India

Ganesh Shamrao Andekar & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2017] 5 S.C.R. 277
Bench R. F. Nariman and Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 30 March 2017

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated herein below find it difficult to agree with his conclusion that the High Court judgment in the present appeal is correct.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860- s.302 rlw s.34 - Murder -Appeal against the acquittal by trial court - Scope for interference - Appellants and victim-deceased were neighbours - There was enmity between them - Prosecution case that after a heated exchange, appellants chased down the deceased and assaulted him with weapons - When accused were chasing deceased, his wife (PW-13) and daughter (PW-2) had followed them and had witnessed the assault - PW-2 took deceased to the ho~pital where he succumbed to the injuries - Trial court acquitted all the accused - High Court, however, convicted the appellants and two

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