Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 127 · Decided 24 February 2004
Bihari Nath Goswami v. Shiv Kumar Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 127 · [2004] 2 S.C.R. 623
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1113/1997
- Decided
- 24 February 2004
- Bench
- P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
B Criminal Trial-Appeal against acquittal-Interference with-Principles to be adopted-Two views possible-Held, view favourable to accused should be adopted-Exaggerations in prosecution's case-Acquittal on the basis of- C Not interfered with-Penal Code-Section 302. The case of the prosecution was other persons in front of the house of 'M'. The accused persons came variously armed and abducted the deceased saying that the deceased would be killed. When the informant and others tried D to follow, they were threatened. The informant thereafter went to the house of 'M' with a havildar of a
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