Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 181 · Decided 13 April 1999
Ahmed Bin Salem v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 181 · [1999] 2 S.C.R. 610
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 587/1994
- Decided
- 13 April 1999
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 5, 302, 307, 34; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Penal Codes, 1860/Code of Criminal Procedures, 197 3-Sections 302 and 3071161 Criminal Trial-Appreciation of evidence-Contradictions and improvement in the evidence during the trial from the one stated by the C witnesses to the police under Section 161 Cr.PC-Murder of two persons by hurling name was included during the course of trial-Material contradictions and improvements in the statement recorded by the witnesses during the recording of evidence in D court-Absence of proper test identification parade-Delayed examination of witnesses-Held, prosecution failed to prove the
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