Supreme Court of India

Samsul Haque v. The State of Assam

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Reported as [2019] 11 S.C.R. 229
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K. M. Joseph JJ.
Decided 26 August 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, the last plea of the learned counsel is only stated to be rejected.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Prosecution case was that the victim-deceased was sitting in a tea stall on the fat eful day, when the first six accused entered and accused no.2 and 3 all of a s udden started firing at the deceased with a pistol, while the othe r accused started stabbing and hacking him with daggers, swor ds etc. and the incident occurred at the instigation of accused nos.7 , 8 and 9 – Son of the deceased (PW-3) lodged FIR stating that he w as present at the site along with other witnesses and tried to resist the accused – They were threatened with pistol and to save their lif e,

Where later benches applied it

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