Supreme Court of India
Yashwant Etc. v. The State of Maharashtra
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We are of the opinion that we need to address only four questions herein, as the High Court has sufficiently considered other questions, which we need not interfere with.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 304 and ss.330,354,355, 342 r/ w. s.34 – Pr osecution case was that the police officials took victim into custody in or der to extract information r egarding a ‘loot’ in a hotel – It was alleged that police officials caused injuries to the victim in furtherance of extracting confession which led to his death in police custody – T rial Court acquitted all accused police officials ( -1 to 10) u/s. 302 of IPC but convicted them u/ss.330, 354, 355, 342 r/w.34 of IPC – High Cour t acquitted ( -1 to 9) of the offences punishable u/ss.354,355, 342 r/w .34 of IPC, however ,
Authorities it was built on
- 2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka
- 2012 Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra
- 1995 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.
- 2009 Mahtab Singh & Anr. v. State of U.P.
- 2009 Jayaseelan v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 1981 State of West Bengal v. Shew Mangal Singh & Ors.
- 2007 Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab
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