Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 313 · Decided 19 March 2007
Akhlaq v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 313 · [2007] 4 S.C.R. 71
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 372/2007
- Decided
- 19 March 2007
- Bench
- S.H. KAPADIA, B. SUDERSHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 376, 302; Evidence Act Section 8
Headnote
B ..; .. Penal Code, 1860-Sections 34-Evidence Act, 1872-Section 8- Death by strangulation-Common intention-Proof by circumstantial evidence-During trial, prosecution witnesses stating that they saw all accused c following deceased to place of occurrence-Extra judicial confession of accused no. 4 saw A-1 having sexual intercourse with deceased; when she refused their demands, two of them forcibly had sexual intercourse with her; when she threatened to expose their D misdeeds, he [A-4] took her dhoti, tied it around her neck, .while others, including A-1, caught hold of her, and she died
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