Supreme Court of India

Sukumaran v. State Rep. by the Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2019] 4 S.C.R. 660
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and R. Subhash Reddy JJ.
Decided 7 March 2019

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In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal succeeds and is accordingly allowed.

Judgment, page 17

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Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w ss.109 and 203 – Pr osecution case was that appellant- -1 was working as For est Range Officer – On the fateful day , while he was on duty and going in his official jeep along with co-accused, the driver of his jeep, he noticed four persons (deceased driver , PW1, PW2 and one cleaner) in a lor ry – Suspecting smuggling of sandalwood, he chased them and after some distance when the lorry stopped and the driver of the lorry and his associates star ted r unning, he fir ed a gun shot fr om his DBL-gun which hit the driver causing his death – It was the case of

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