Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 985 · Decided 24 October 2018
Asar Mohammad and ORS. v. The State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 985 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 248
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1617/2011
- Decided
- 24 October 2018
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, L. NAGESWARA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 201 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Prosecution of three accused - Confessional statement of one accused (appellant No.1) - Recovery of dead bodies at his instance - FIR lodged on the basis of missing report filed by PW7 awarding death sentence to all the three accused - High Court affirmed the conviction, but reduced the death sentence to imprisonment for life - On appeal, held: In view of the entire evidence and totality of the proved circumstances, courts below were right in holding appellant
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