Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 271 · Decided 5 April 2024
Chandan v. The State (Delhi ADMN.)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 271 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 94
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 788/2012
- Decided
- 5 April 2024
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Matter pertains to effect of lack or absence of motive, when there is testimony of a reliable eye-witness. Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Prosecution case that accused stabbed the victim multiple times with the knife he was carrying, - Victim's sister-in-law witnessed the incident from a short distance - Conviction and sentence u/s. 302 by the courts below - Interference with: Held: Not called for - Blood of the deceased clearly matched with the blood found on the knife recovered from the accused,
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