Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 317 · Decided 3 August 2012
Dayal Singh & ORS. v. State of Uttaranchal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 317 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 157
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 529/2010
- Decided
- 3 August 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Cnminal Trial - Defective/imprope·r investigation - Dereliction of duty and acts of omission - By PW6, the C Investigating officer (SI) and PW3, the government medical officer, who prepared the post mortem report - Held: In the case at hand where one person had died allegedly due to prepared by PW3 was a deliberate attempt to disguise the investigation - PW3 created D a serious doubt as to the very cause of death of the deceased - If PW3 was not able to record a finding with regard to the cause of death, he was expected to record some reason in support thereof,
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