Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 706 · Decided 8 November 2021
Bijender @ Mandar v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 706 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 1138
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2438/2010
- Decided
- 8 November 2021
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, SURYA KANT, HIMA KOHLI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 392, 397; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 392 and 397 - Robbery using deadly weapons - Prosecution case that appellant and co-accused armed with pistols robbed the complainant and his nephew - Conviction u/ss. 392 and 397 and sentenced accordingly, on basis of the disclosure statement - High Court upheld the conviction, however, reduced the sentence u/s. 397 - On appeal, held: Court can convict an accused exclusively on the basis of his disclosure statement and the resultant recovery of inculpatory material - However, in order to sustain the guilt of
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