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Even a single crime committed by a \u2018Gang\u2019 is sufficient to implant Gangsters Act on such members of the \u2018Gang\u2019. <strong><em>The definition clause does not engulf plurality of offence before the Gangsters Act is invoked<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A member of a \u2018Gang\u2019 acting either singly or collectively may be termed as a member of the \u2018Gang\u2019 and comes within the definition of \u2018Gang\u2019, provided he\/she is found to have indulged in any of the anti-social activities mentioned in Section 2(b) of the Gangsters Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, a \u2018Gangster\u2019 means a member or leader or organiser of a gang including any person who abets or assists in the activities of a gang enumerated in clause (b) of Section 2, who either acting singly or collectively commits and indulges in any of the anti-social activities mentioned in Section 2(b) can be said to have committed the offence under the Gangsters Act and can be prosecuted and punished for the offence under the Gangsters Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reading the relevant provisions of the Gangsters Act together, the Court concluded that there can be prosecution against a person even in case of a single offence\/FIR\/charge sheet for any of the anti-social activities mentioned in Section 2(b) of the Act provided such an anti-social activity is by violence, or threat or show of violence, or intimidation, or coercion or otherwise with the object of disturbing public order or of gaining any undue temporal, pecuniary, material or other advantage for himself or any other person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court was deciding the case where allegedly the main accused P.C. Sharma was a gang leader and who was the mastermind and he hatched the criminal conspiracy along with other co-accused including the appellant to commit the murder of the deceased Sadhna Sharma for a pecuniary benefit as there was a property dispute going on since long between the family members. The other co-accused were already charge sheeted\/prosecuted for the offence under the Gangsters Act and therefore the appellant and the other two co-accused being members of the \u2018Gang\u2019 were also required to be prosecuted for the offences under the Gangsters Act also like other co-accused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applying the law enunciated above to the facts and circumstances of the case, the Court held that it cannot be said that no prosecution could have been initiated against the appellant-accused for the offences under Sections 2\/3 of the Gangsters Act, 1986.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Shraddha Gupta v. State of Uttar Pradesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/96oG1iTa\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine SC 514<\/b><\/a>, decided on 26.04.2022]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Judgment by: Justice MR Shah<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Counsel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For appellant: Advocate Divyesh Pratap Singh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For State: Advocate Sanjay Kumar Tyagi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For informant: Advocate Shuvodeep Roy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: In a case where it was argued before the Court that an accused cannot be prosecuted under the Gangsters Act, 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