Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 284 · Decided 17 September 1990
Baldev Raj v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 284 · [1990] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 492
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 206/1979
- Decided
- 17 September 1990
- Bench
- M.H. KANIA, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
RAJ v. STATE OF HARYANA SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 [M.H. KANIA AND M. FATHIMA BEEVI, JJ. Criminal Trial-Extra-judicial confession-Evidentiary value of-Whether can be relied upon by Court fof co;iviction. The appellant was convicted nnder s. 302 IPC for murdering his wife. The prosecution case was that He made an extra-judicial confession the same day at the panchayat in the presence of PWs 3, 4 and S to the effect that he had killed his wife in the wheat field and threw the dead-body in the drain at O night after removing her ornaments. The FIR was lodged thereafter in the presence of the
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