Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 419 · Decided 26 April 2018
Bhaskarrao & ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 419 · [2018] 4 S.C.R. 751
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 408/2014
- Decided
- 26 April 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 452
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 147, 148, 452 r/w s. 149, s.302/149 and s.506 - Prosecution under - For murder of a person - by 16 accused - Trial Court acquitted all the accused - High Court reversed the acquittal order - On appeal, held: Evidence of witnesses were not improvement in the statement of witnesses - There were contradictory statements as regards the number of accused persons involved - All the witnesses were related - Material independent witnesses were not examined - Prosecution failed to prove motive - Panch witnesses
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