Supreme Court of India

Sudhir Samanna v. State of West Bengal & Another

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Bench G.T. Nanavati and M. Jaganndha Rao JJ.
Decided 21 October 1997

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we modify the conviction of A1, A3 and A8 to one under Section 304, Part II read with Section 149 IPC and award them a sentence of 5 years.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: WITH (CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. 297 & 298 OF 1987) J U M N T M. JAGANNADHA RAO. J These three Appeals arise out of the Judgment of the High Court of Calcutta in Criminal appeal No. 159 of 1982 date 21.2.1986. BY that judgment, the conviction and sentence of eight accused, has been confirmed. Aggrieved thereby Suchir Samanta (accused No.4) has filed Criminal Appeal No. 296 of 1987 S.K. Ejahar alias Asgar Hussain (accused No. 9) has filed Criminal Appeal No. 298 of 1987, Six others, namely, Supriya Parial (accused No. 1), Gajendra Nath Mondal (accused No. 2), Biswanath Bhowmick (accused…

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