Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 52 · Decided 31 January 2003
Amar Singh v. Balwinder Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 52 · [2003] 1 S.C.R. 754
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1671/1995
- Decided
- 31 January 2003
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, G.P. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 386, 174
Headnote
Penal Code, I 860-Section 302 read with Section 34 and Section 307- Conviction-High Court acquitting .the accused-On appeal held ord,er of C High Court perverse and illegal since it failed to consider the testimony of eye-witnesses and reasons given for discarding the prosecution case are not of Appellate Court-Appeal from conviction-Case based on eye witness account-High Court failing to consider testimony of eye-witnesses and acquitting accused-leads to infraction of Section 386. Section I 7 4-lnquest report-Non-mentioning of facts about occurrence-Effect of-Held, such omission
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