Supreme Court of India

Shaik Ahmed v. State of Telangana

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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 fulfilled 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 fulfillment of first condition i.e. “whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction”, the second condition, i.e., “and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person” also needs to be proved in situation the case is not covered by subsequent clauses joined by “or”.…

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