Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 452 · Decided 29 April 1997
Daulat Ram v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 452 · [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1061
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 489/1989
- Decided
- 29 April 1997
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K.S. PARIPOORNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 27; CrPC Section 313; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
Criminal Tlial : No11-appreciatio11/ignora11ce of vital defence witnesses by the Trial Cowt as well as by the High Court-Appreciation of defence evidence by the Supreme Cowt called for if ignored by the Courts below. No neighbour coming fo1ward to support the case of the prosecu­ dress was least suggestive of the fact that he was set for travel to another destinatiol!-Conviction can be set aside if the timing of death proves to be mutelially different than the one alleged by the prosecution. Medical Jurisprudence Timing of death-To be ascertained by properly i11te1preting
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