Supreme Court Partly Allows Appeal in Family Dispute Over Boundary, Modifies Sentence for Non-Compoundable Offence Due to Compromise. Conviction Under Section 436 IPC Sustained for Appellants Who Set Fire, but Sentence Reduced to Period Already Undergone; Appellant Without Common Intention Acquitted of That Charge....
The appeal arose from a family dispute between two real brothers, appellant no.1 Shankar Harale and respondent no.2 Namdeo Harale, over a boundary of agricultural fields. On 21st May 2009, while the c...
