https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200495 Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code imposes joint liability where several persons act in furtherance of a common intention, even if only one participant inflicts the fatal act and others perform different parts of the criminal design. The Court rejected the view that identical physical participation by each accused is required, and treated the section as making each participant liable as if the act were done by him alone. It also stated that a charge must be read as a whole, and that mere non-direction is not misdirection unless it renders the summing up misleading. No certified error of law was shown under Clause 26 of the Letters Patent. en-us Wed, 26 Sep 1923 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:03:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200495 Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code imposes joint liability where several persons act in furtherance of a common intention, even if only one participant inflicts the fatal act and others perform different parts of the criminal design. The Court rejected the view that identical physical participation by each accused is required, and treated the section as making each participant liable as if the act were done by him alone. It also stated that a charge must be read as a whole, and that mere non-direction is not misdirection unless it renders the summing up misleading. No certified error of law was shown under Clause 26 of the Letters Patent. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 26 Sep 1923 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200495