Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 100 · Decided 23 February 2012
Amit v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 100 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 1009
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1905/2011
- Decided
- 23 February 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364, 376, 377, 302, 201
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860: ss.364, 376, 377, 302 and 201 - Rape followed by murder of minor girl - Allegation against the appellant that he took away the victim from her house in the C presence of her mother and grandmother on the pretext of giving her biscuits and raped and murdered her - Courts below and 201 - On appeal, held: There was no evidence to show that grandmother of the victim was interested in having the appellant convicted o - As the appellant was neighbour and known to the grandmother of the victim, no Test Identification Parade was necessary for her to identify the appellant -
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