Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Section 34 IPC | Coordinated Armed Return After Interval Proves Common Intention in Keenan Santos Murder Case : Bombay HC
The court held that a 10-15 minute gap between the initial altercation and the accused's return with weapons demonstrated a pre-arranged plan, not a sudden fight, cementing common intention for murder. The ruling clarifies that temporal intervals do not break common intention when conduct shows coordinated reprisal, impacting group violence prosecutions.