Supreme Court of India
Ashok Upadhyay v. The State of Bihar
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What the Court ordered
In the totality of the circumstances, we are persuaded to give the appellants herein the benefit of doubt and, hence, we acquit them. The appellants shall be released from custody forthwith if they are remaining in custody and if not required in any other case. If they are on bail, their bail bonds shall stand cancelled. The criminal appeal is allowed.
Judgment, 21-23
In brief
A dispute over a blocked drain causing waterlogging in front of the deceased's house led to a brawl between two families; the deceased, then bathing his buffalo, was shot dead, allegedly by A2 on exhortation, while A1 was said to have fired at the women and children. All the eyewitnesses were close relatives residing in the same house (sons PW2, PW3, PW10, daughter PW5 and daughter-in-law PW6), and though villagers gathered, none was produced; PW8, the claimed independent eyewitness, was not corroborated by PW2 whom he said he accompanied.…
Authorities it was built on
- Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
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