Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 7 · Decided 12 January 1988
Chandan & Om Prakash v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 7 · [1988] 2 S.C.R. 599
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 106/1986
- Decided
- 12 January 1988
- Bench
- G.L. OZA, L.M. SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; Evidence Act Section 114(6), 133
Headnote
B t Indian Evidence Act, 1872: Ss. 114(6) and 133-Evidence of accomplice-Corroboration by independent evidence-Necessity for. f. Five persons were tried for the murder of a widow, out of which one turned approver. There was no direct evidence in the case. The only c ''-f'- evidence was the '-( The trial court discarded the testimony of two witnesses who had • "' y identified some articles. The third witness, the son of the deceased and who had identified the articles was not examined at the trial. The court, however, convicted all the accused persons under s. 302 read
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