Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 240 · Decided 30 March 2011
Chandra Bonia v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 240 · [2011] 4 S.C.R. 15
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 131/2006
- Decided
- 30 March 2011
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
A 8 Penal Code, 1860- s. 302 - Double murder- Conviction and sentence by the courts below - On basis of the extra- C judicial confession made by accused before prosecution witness and recovery of the murder weapon at the instance of the accused before Investigating Officer- On appeal, held: weak piece of evidence and ordinarily a conviction solely on the basis of such evidence o cannot be maintained - However, in the instant case, the extra-judicial confession was made by accused to the prosecution witness in a different background inasmuch as the 0 accused suspected that he had
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