https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169298 The Supreme Court reiterated that the right of private defence exists only while a real and immediate threat continues; once the assailants have dispersed or fled, retaliatory force is no longer protected. On the accepted facts, the victims were shot from a distance after the crowd had begun to run away, so the appellants could not invoke private defence and their murder conviction was maintained. The Court nevertheless treated the surrounding property dispute, confrontation, crowd situation, and heat of the occurrence as mitigating factors. For that reason, the sentence of death was reduced to life imprisonment. en-us Mon, 30 Jul 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:30:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169298 The Supreme Court reiterated that the right of private defence exists only while a real and immediate threat continues; once the assailants have dispersed or fled, retaliatory force is no longer protected. On the accepted facts, the victims were shot from a distance after the crowd had begun to run away, so the appellants could not invoke private defence and their murder conviction was maintained. The Court nevertheless treated the surrounding property dispute, confrontation, crowd situation, and heat of the occurrence as mitigating factors. For that reason, the sentence of death was reduced to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 30 Jul 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169298