Supreme Court of India
Dhrub Singh Etc v. The State of Bihar
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What the Court ordered
We, hence, acquit the accused and direct that they be released forthwith if any of the appellants are in custody, if not required in any other case, and if they were released on bail, their bail bonds shall stand cancelled. 13. The Appeals stand allowed.
Judgment, 12-13
In brief
The deceased, walking to his fields with his son (PW7), an employee (PW1), a relative (PW2) and a villager, was allegedly ambushed by six accused who opened indiscriminate fire, with exhortations to kill all, and the deceased was shot in the back; the accused fled when a patrol car carrying a Magistrate arrived on what was apparently an election day, and the victim was declared dead at hospital. The eyewitnesses, all related to or employed by the deceased, gave differing accounts of who fired the fatal shot (A7 or A4), and none of them suffered any injury despite the alleged indiscriminate firing.…
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