Supreme Court of India

Dalbir Singh v. Union of India & Ors.

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Bench M. R. Shah and A. S. Bopanna JJ.
Decided 2 July 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the order of imprisonment need not be implemented at this stage.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Armed Forces – Appellant was posted to 3 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) Battalion in 2006 – According to the prosecution while the appellant was so serving, it was ordered on August 13, 2006 to cordon and carry out search in a village in the Jammu and Kashmir – On reaching the village there was exchange of fire, after which the militants took cover in a maize field – When the appellant and the group in which he was given the responsibility to search the house was searching the said house, they heard firing from the direction of the maize field and as such the group exited the house and the cordon was…

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