https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456678 In riot cases, an unlawful assembly and its common object may be inferred from the surrounding circumstances, including the conduct of the crowd, the weapons used, the burning of property, and the resulting deaths. On that basis, the Court treated the group attacking the marriage party as sharing a common object to kill, and held that membership in the assembly could be fixed through consistent corroborated eyewitness identification. Where identification was not sufficiently supported or alibi evidence created real doubt, acquittal was sustained; where accused persons were repeatedly named by reliable witnesses, liability followed under the substantive offences read with Section 149. en-us Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:53:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456678 In riot cases, an unlawful assembly and its common object may be inferred from the surrounding circumstances, including the conduct of the crowd, the weapons used, the burning of property, and the resulting deaths. On that basis, the Court treated the group attacking the marriage party as sharing a common object to kill, and held that membership in the assembly could be fixed through consistent corroborated eyewitness identification. Where identification was not sufficiently supported or alibi evidence created real doubt, acquittal was sustained; where accused persons were repeatedly named by reliable witnesses, liability followed under the substantive offences read with Section 149. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456678