Supreme Court of India

Postman Vengaisamy & Ors. v. State Represented by Inspector of Police & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 9 S.C.R. 1115
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 24 July 2019

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Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Fifteen accused – Pr osecution case was that ther e was histor y of pr evious attack on complainant party – On the fateful day , all the accused armed with weapons surrounded PW -1, PW -2 and the deceased – -11 instigated the other accused to cut the victim-deceased into pieces – Pursuant to that, they wer e attacked wher eby -13 chopped the left hand below elbow of PW -1 wher eas -6 hit left shoulder of PW -2 while the victim-deceased was attacked on several parts of his body with sword by the accused persons – PW -1 and PW -2 escaped fr om the clutches of the

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