Constable 907 Surendra Singh State Of Uttarakhand 2025 INSC 114 - S 34 IPC - S 378 CrPC

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 34 - For convicting the accused with the aid of Section 34 of the IPC the prosecution must establish prior meetings of minds. It must be established that all the accused had preplanned and shared a common intention to commit the crime with the accused who has actually committed the crime. It must be established that the criminal act has been done in furtherance of the common intention of all the accused.(Para 18)

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 378 - The scope of interference in an appeal against acquittal- the interference with the finding of acquittal recorded by the learned trial judge would be warranted by the High Court only if the judgment of acquittal suffers from patent perversity; that the same is based on a misreading/omission to consider material evidence on record; and that no two reasonable views are possible and only the view consistent with the guilt of the accused is possible from the evidence available on record. (Para 11-12) [In this case, SC restored acquittal of accused]