GUDDA @ KALI @ LAXMINARAYAN vs STATE OF M.P. . — Crl.A. No. 1442/2010

Summary: Criminal Appeal No. 1442 of 2010 The Supreme Court dismissed the criminal appeals filed by appellants (including Gudda @ Kali @ Laxminarayan) challenging their convictions under Section 302 read with Section 149 IPC for murder committed during an unlawful assembly on March 8, 1996, in Gokulpur, Madhya Pradesh. The Court upheld the trial and High Court's findings that the accused collectively attacked the deceased with deadly weapons (spear, sword, gupti, knife) with a common object to kill, causing fatal chest injuries, and also assaulted PW-1 who attempted to intervene. The evidence of five eyewitnesses corroborated by medical evidence was found sufficient to establish the common object of the unlawful assembly. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.