Supreme Court of India

Shaik Ahmed v. State of Telangana

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Reported as [2021] 6 S.C.R. 462
Bench Ashok Bhushan and R. Subhash Reddy JJ.
Decided 28 June 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that condition No.2 has also to be fulf illed before ingredients of Section 364A are found to be established.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.364A – Essential ingredients – For covering an offence under s.364A, apart from fulfil lment of first condition i.e. “whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or ke eps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction”, the s econd condition, i.e., “and threatens to cause death or hurt to suc h person” also needs to be proved in situation the case is no t covered by subsequent clauses joined by “or”. Penal Code, 1860: s.364A – Prosecution case was tha t accused kidnapped 13 years old school boy (PW-2) and telephoned to his father (PW-1) demanding Rs.2 lakhs for

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