Supreme Court of India
Nepal Singh v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
Accordingly, the judgment of conviction of the appellant is hereby set aside, and the appeals are disposed of. Judgment dated 08.03.2018 passed in Criminal Appeal Nos.1272 of 1995 and 1327 of 1995 titled Bahadur Singh and Ors. vs. The State of Madhya Pradesh through P.S. Hatta, District Damoh, passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur, is quashed and set aside. Accordingly, the accused, if in jail, is directed to be set free. Bail bonds, if any, stands cancelled.
Judgment, 11
In brief
On 06.01.1993 a group allegedly formed an unlawful assembly and assaulted Gaflu and his son Bharat Singh with lathi, farsa and ballam in a field at village Hatta, Damoh; Gaflu died of his injuries, a fact proved by the medical evidence of PW-14. There was a subsisting land dispute between the parties: Prakash Pateriya (a co-accused who died during trial) owned the land tilled by the accused, and the deceased Gaflu was himself an accused in an earlier assault on the accused party.…
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