Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 930 · Decided 4 March 2014
Chetram v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 930 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 70
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 543/2014
- Decided
- 4 March 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, C. NAGAPPAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c s.302 rlw s.34 - Murder - Two accused - One of them stabbed the victim resulting into his death - Conviction by courts below of both - Plea of appellant that no role was attributed to him in the crime - Held: No role was assigned to appellant in FIR or in statement u/s 161 by that appellant caught hold of victim is an improvement over his statement in FIR and uls 161 CrPC - This creates a suspicion about overt act attributed to appellant - His involvement in the incident remains doubtful - Accordingly, appellant is entitled E to benefit of doubt and, as such,
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