Supreme Court of India

Dalbir Singh v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 9 S.C.R. 29
Bench M. R. Shah and A.S. Bopanna JJ.
Decided 2 July 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the order of imprisonment need not be implemented at this stage.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Armed For ces – Appellant was posted to 3 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) Battalion in 2006 – According to the pr osecution while the appellant was so ser ving, it was or dered on August 13, 2006 to cordon and car ry out sear ch in a village in the Jammu and Kashmir – On r eaching the village ther e was exchange of fir e, after which the militants took cover in a maize field – When the appellant and the gr oup in which he was given the r esponsibility to sear ch the house was sear ching the said house, they hear d firing fr om the direction of the maize field and as such the gr oup exited the house and

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