Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 131 · Decided 6 May 1970
Budhsen v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 131 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 564
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 199/1969
- Decided
- 6 May 1970
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; Evidence Act
Headnote
Evidence Act (1 oif 1872),s.9-Idemification parades-Manner of holding-Weight to be atlac/ied-Constitutlon of India 1950 Art. 136-Evidentiary value attached to identificnUon parades:._&ro~eous-­ lnterference by Supreme Court. The two appellants B and N, along with two others who were against them mainly consisted of six witnesses who had identified them at test parades. The High Court rejected the eyidence of three of them and relied upon the evidence of the remaining three. Two of them claimed to be present at ~he time of the occurrence and the third came on the scene
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