Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 973 · Decided 17 March 2015
Daulat Ram @ Daulti v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 973 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 1001
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 433/2015
- Decided
- 17 March 2015
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
1001 A B Penal code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.34 and s.201 - C Conviction by courts below based on circumstantial evidence - Deceased brutally murdered and his dead body thrown in dry well - Evidence of prosecution witnesses were not found to be trustworthy - Motive or previous 0 enmity of the not proved - Chain of circumstances wa$ not complete to prove charge of offences ulss.302 and 201 against the appellant - Conviction liable to be set aside. Allowing the appeal, the court E HELD: 1. PW-1, father of the deceased supported the prosecution case that the dead body of his son
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