Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 856 · Decided 16 July 2025
Baljinder Kumar @ Kala v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 856 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1070
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2688/2024
- Decided
- 16 July 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 308, 325; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Whether the courts below erred in convicting the appellant for offences u/ss.302, 308 and 325, Penal Code, 1860 and imposing death sentence on him, when the prosecution had failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Evidence - Charges not doubt - Courts below strongly relying upon the testimonies of three witnesses PW1 (the complainant), PW2 (alleged eyewitness) and PW17 (injured child witness), convicted the appellant for the murder of his wife, two children and sister-in-law and imposed death sentence -
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