Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 609 · Decided 15 October 2004
D. Gopalakrishnan v. Sadanand Naik and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 609 · [2004] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 520
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1197/1998
- Decided
- 15 October 2004
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, AR. LAKSHMANAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 49; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Criminal Law: Identification of accused-During investigation police showing C photographs of the accused with names written underneath, to witnesses and recording their statements uls 161 Cr.PC-Held, procedure adopted by police is not justified-Not a fit case to interfere with acquittal recorded Procedure, 1973-s.161-Investigation. D During strike in a branch of a company in Goa, some of the striking employees were said to have attacked the supervisors, who had been posted there from Chennai branch a few days back to train new employees. One of the victims later died.in the hospital.
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