Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 644 · Decided 20 September 2013
Baldev Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 644 · [2013] 9 S.C.R. 547
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1303/2005
- Decided
- 20 September 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201, 302; CrPC Section 220(1), 161
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B ss. 302 read with s. 120-B - Police party picking up 7 c members of complainant's family - Victims did not return - Conviction by courts below u/ss 364, 452, 120-B and 302 - Held: Evidence adduced is that the seven persons abducted by appellants were seen in different police near the police station - On this 0 evidence, court cannot hold that the two appellants have killed the seven abducted persons only because they have not been traced or are found missing - No material has been placed before the court to establish that the last police station in which the seven
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