Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 37 · Decided 9 January 1996
Behari Prasad ETC. ETC. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 37 · [1996] 1 S.C.R. 262
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1/1989
- Decided
- 9 January 1996
- Bench
- G.N. RAY, G.T. NANAVATI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3021199, 302134, 148, 323, 27; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
flidian Penal Code : Ss. 3021199, 302134, 148,323--Murder-Trial--Accused convicted and sentenced to imprisonment .for l(fe--Conviction challenged as based on evi­ dence of partisan witnesses and failure of prosecution to examine Investigating O.fficer--Held, incident taking place near at the place o.f occur-. rence could not be said to be unususal--Non-examination of Investigating O.fficer per se would not vitiate a criniinal trial-A case of prejudice likely to be su.{fered by accused must depend on .facts o.f each case. The four accused-appellants, along with
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