Supreme Court of India

Harendra Rai v. The State of Bihar & Ors.

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Reported as [2023] 11 S.C.R. 403
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abhay S. Oka and Vikram Nath JJ.
Decided 18 August 2023

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Issues for consideration: In a double murder case, wherein it was alleged that accused no.1-respondent no.2 had opened fi re from his rifl e resulting in injury to three persons, out of which two died, and the trial court had acquitted accused-respondent nos. 2 to 8 of all the charges, which was confi rmed by the High Court in criminal revision, the issues befo re this Court were: (i) Whether the Supreme Court, in appeal against acquittal, c ould consider the High Court’s judgment dated 13.03.2007 passed in a Habeas Corpus Writ Petition (fi led pursuant to abduction of CW1, mother of one of the

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