Apex Court considered a case relating to a mob attack
where there was delay in lodging FIR and it was held at
paragraph
Petitioner contends that he suffered substantial loss on account of the mob attack on his hotel and the looting which took place ... hotel from the mob. In support of his contention that timely information was given to the police about the mob attack on his hotel
knife
used for tapping coconut trees. But, he was attacked by the mob and he
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took refuge ... prevent the attack, the accused
stormed into the house and brutally attacked PW3 also. Under the
belief that both were dead, the mob went away
defendant a common carrier?
(ii) Can the destructive acts of an unruly mob be characterised as act of God?
3. Now the facts ... when they came across the defendant's lorry the mob attacked it and the goods were removed. The loss was therefore due to accident
facto complainant and the 5th accused attacked another
officer with a stick causing injuries. Thereafter, the violent
mob is alleged to have destroyed the glasses ... police officers had sustained injuries, as a
result of the mob attack. The accused Nos. 2 and 5 were the
persons who had attacked
distinction between motive and intention. His order is, therefore, not open to attack on this ground, although it is vulnerable for the reason than ... English statutes against demolishing houses, if one object of a mob attacking a house is to injure a person in it; yet, if another
compensate the loss caused to a person on account of mob attack and looting of his establishment and the resultant failure on the part
insignificant inconsistencies. One has to remember that it was a
mob attack and it was not possible for the witnesses to speak on
the exact ... anticipate that
such a thing would happen. Apart from that, in a mob fury, if one
of them without any pre-meditation or pre-determination
basic prosecution version regarding the joint attack by all the four accused against PW 2 and the murderous attack by the first accused against deceased ... that they sustained injuries and their jeep was damaged in a mob attack after the incident by pelting stones. For that a case was registered
that particular religion or religious denomination. If a mad and fanatic mob attacked only the places of worship of a particular religious denomination, then