Supreme Court of India
Hakeem Khan & Ors. v. State of M.P.
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We are of the considered opinion that the High Court clearly fell in grave error in setting aside the acquittal in the present case.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.49 - Prosecution case was that there was dispute between the complainant party and accused party due to panchayat elections - On fatefal day, accused persons armed with lathis and farsis intercepted complainant party and attacked them resulting in death of one person - Trial court acquitted the accused persons on the ground that there were injuries on both the sides; that there were six eye-witnesses including injured eye witness but only one of them was an independent witness who however turned hostile; and that two other independent eye witnesses were
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