Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 176 · Decided 12 February 2019
Chandru @ Chandrasekaran v. State REP. BY Deputy Superintendent of Police CB Cid and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 176 · [2019] 2 S.C.R. 105
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1193/2011
- Decided
- 12 February 2019
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, DEEPAK GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w. s. 120B - Murder - Prosecution case based on circumstantial evidence - Conviction by the trial court - High Court affirmed the conviction in appeal - On appeal, held: There was inconsistency in the statement of the complainant delay in filing private complaint - The private complaint which was filed four years later was contrary to the first complaint which was filed immediately after the incident - Evidence of PW1 and PW5 cannot be relied on as they did not come to the court with clean hands - The
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