Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 430 · Decided 26 July 2010
Bipin Kumar Mondal v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 430 · [2010] 8 S.C.R. 1036
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1247/2008
- Decided
- 26 July 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 323, 324; Evidence Act Section 134
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.302, 323 - Murder - Appellant stabbing his wife and son to death - PW-1, the other son while C trying to intervene also sustaining injuries - Conviction ul ss. 302 and 323 - Challenged - Held: There was nothing to show that PW-1 had any reason to rope his father into such was natural, probable and convincing - The other witnesses who were close relatives D and neighbours and reached the spot after hearing the shouts of PW-1, also supported the prosecution case - Ocular evidence was duly supported by post mortem report - Courts below were right in ordering
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