In Brief
A murder case from 1992 in Uttar Pradesh involving a land dispute that escalated into violence and a fatal shooting. The trial court acquitted all three accused, citing contradictory witness accounts and doubting the incident's timing. The High Court convicted the appellant under Sections 304 Part-I (culpable homicide), 307 (attempted murder), and 323 (simple hurt). The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that while witnesses differed on the preliminary scuffle's details, all three—including two injured witnesses—unanimously testified that the appellant alone fired the fatal shot. The sentence was reduced from 10 years to 6 years imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 7,000.
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