Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 314 · Decided 29 March 2023
Balu Sudam Khalde & Anr v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 314 · [2023] 6 S.C.R. 851
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1910/2010
- Decided
- 29 March 2023
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 6, 7; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 r/w 34 - Prosecution case that verbal altercation between the parties resulting in a fight wherein first informant assaulted on the head and the deceased suffered severe assault and succumbed to his injuries - Appellants convicted u/s 302 r/w 34, imprisonment, however, acquittal of A-2 and A-4 - High Court upheld the order - Interference with - Held: Not called for - Oral evidence of all the three eyewitnesses is consistent and no good reason for the court to disbelieve the ocular version as narrated by the three
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