Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 667 · Decided 11 July 2022
Amrik Singh v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 667 · [2022] 7 S.C.R. 451
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 993/2012
- Decided
- 11 July 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 392
Headnote
Criminal Trial: Test Identification Parade-TIP - Non-conduct of - Effect of, on prosecution case - Appellant and two others allegedly committed robbery and murdered the victim during the course of the robbery - FIR by complainant-eye-witness - Conviction u/ss. 302 r/w On appeal, held: Prosecution failed to prove that the complainant and the deceased were carrying cash and it was looted by the accused persons - Conviction solely on the basis of the identification of the accused by the complainant-eye-witness for the first time in the court room -
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