Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 584 · Decided 17 August 2011
Amitava Banerjee @ Amit @ Bappa Banerjee v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 584 · [2011] 12 S.C.R. 160
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1939/2008
- Decided
- 17 August 2011
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: s. 302 - Conviction under - Allegation against the accused that he strangulated and killed c the victim and buried his dead body - Trial court convicted the accused holding that although motive was not proved but circumstantial evidence was so strong and so unerringly of the appellant that the absence of a motive did not make much of a difference - High Court 0 upheld the order of the trial court - On appeal, held: There were number of incriminating circumstances pointing towards the guilt of the accused viz. the deposition of mother of the victim that the
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