In Brief
Four accused were convicted of murder under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC for shooting a man during a neighborhood dispute over land encroachment. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Pardeep (who fired the fatal shot) and Sandeep (who gave proximate exhortation), finding eyewitness evidence consistent with the FIR and corroborated by ballistic and medical evidence showing the shot came from the house roof. However, the Court acquitted Ishwar and Krishana (the parents), finding their initial exhortation insufficient to establish common intention under Section 34, thus benefiting them from reasonable doubt.
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