Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1327 · Decided 6 December 2019
Darshan Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1327 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 742
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1688/2009
- Decided
- 6 December 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Murder - Conviction based on extra judicial confession - A dead body was found in a jute bag in the field of informant - Body was decomposed and was identified on the basis of clothes as the face was disfigured - Deceased was mother of and accused-JS was son of accused-AS - Accused-DS was servant in their house - Prosecution case was that deceased had inherited 5 bigha of land of her deceased son - Accused were not happy with this inheritance - Out of this land, deceased had sold 1 bigha and given the
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