Supreme Court of India

Lakshman Singh v. State of Bihar (now Jharkhand)

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Reported as [2021] 6 S.C.R. 723
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and M. R. Shah JJ.
Decided 23 July 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated hereinabove, all the appeals fail and deserve to be dismissed and are accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 327 and 147 – Prosecution case was that on the day of general election PW-8 was issuin g slips to the voters 200 yards away from pooling booth – Accused per sons who belonged to another village came there armed with l athis, sticks and country made pistols and asked PW-8 to stop iss uing voter slips and hand over voter list and on refusal by PW-8 started beating him with hands, fists, lathis and sticks – When PW-10, the brother of PW-8 came to rescue him, accused-‘ ’ fired gun shot a t PW-10 due to which he received pellet injuries – Accused-‘ ’ fired at PW- 12 –

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