Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 991 · Decided 12 December 2006
Aloke Nath Dutta and ORS. v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 991 · [2006] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 662
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 8867/2005
- Decided
- 12 December 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, DALVEER BHANDARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120B, 302, 201134, 34, 1208; CrPC Section 164; Evidence Act; Constitution Article 20(3), 21
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 120B/302 and 201134--Conspiracy and murder-Prosecution case C against four accused based on circumstantial evidence-Second accused impersonating as brother of first accused and signing some papers for sale of property-Other accused signing as witnesses-Dead body of brother of of first accused stating to have killed his brother as deceased was not agreeable to the sale of ancestral property-He did not D state other accused to have participated in the crime-Retracted judicial confession of second accused involving other accused--But stating that before taking to
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