Merely saying ‘Maro Sale Ko’ during a fight does not show intent to kill: Delhi High Court
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The Delhi High Court recently acquitted a man convicted in a 1983 murder case for allegedly shouting the words “Maro Sale Ko” during a fatal altercation inside a DTC bus, holding that the phrase by itself was insufficient to establish a common intention to kill [Mukesh Kumar v. State of Delhi]. A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja observed that the word “maro” may mean to beat and not necessarily to kill, while extending the benefit of doubt to the accused, one Mukesh Ku