And alcohol makes men beside themselves and buries sanity.
For a group, mainly of prosecution witnesses, was making merry with alcohol in the afternoon of October 13, 1977 at the house of Karaj Singh, a prosecution witness, when one of the appellants Jarnail Singh went in.
Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and order dated the 6th October, 1978 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
He then goes on to say For all their power, Judges remain remarkably unaccountable and unknown.
was delivered by Krishna Iyer, J. A. P. Sen, J. gave a dissenting opinion.
It is the judgment that estops the parties from reopening the dispute.
Guns boomed, dangs, dived, three men and later a fourth,, feel dead and the curtain was drawn after the catastrophe was companyplete.
735 of 1978 and Murder Reference No.
When the deceased Piara Singh came forward to rescue Jagir Singh, both the appellant Kulwant Singh and Dalbir Singh again fired at him from their guns, as a result of which he fell down and succumbed to his injuries on the spot.
Baga Singh, lambardar of the village in the midst of this firing appeared on the scene and made an attempt to pecify both the sides, but he also received gun shot injuries as a result of which he died two days later.
Thereafter, both the appellants companytinued firing their guns at the companyplainants party and Kapoor Singh PW 14 and numberother alternative but to bring out his licensed gun from his house.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
Interpretative number application of death sentence when legislative alternatives exist is within judicial jurisdiction.
Probably, the accused party was also drunk.
1065 Frank Anthony and Sushil Kumar for the Appellants.
KRISHNA IYER, J. Death sentence on death sentence is Parliaments function.
The Judgment of V. R. Krishna Iyer and D. A. Desai, JJ.
12 of 1979.
The onerous option to spare the lives of the appellants to be spent in prison or to hand them over to the hangman to be jettisoned out of terrestrial life into the, undiscovered companyntry from whose bourn numbertraveller returns is the crucial function this Court has to exercise in the present appeal.
Away, the dispute on the turn of water between the two was settled by a patchwork mediation which did number finally extinguish the fires of fury earlier ignited.
Thereupon, both sides started firing and a number of persons sustained gun shot injuries on their person.
S. Sondhi and Hardev Singh for the Respondent.
The tipsy response brought the opposite party out.
His unwelcome presence resulted in frayed tempers, heated tantrums and beating of the 3rd appellant.
Jarnail Singh, the 3rd appellant, who was the victim of the earlier beating, ignited the attack by instigation and his party went into violent action.
Abuses were the provocative invitation for the fracas.
The latter bent on reprisal for the flagellation and humiliation, waited till sundown 1068 and returned armed with friends and weapons from outside.
