Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1252 · Decided 11 January 2017
Debapriya Pal v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1252 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 566
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 623/2013
- Decided
- 11 January 2017
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Evidence Act Section 27, 25
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.34 - Double murder - Circumstantial evidence - Prosecution case was that Al had love affair with deceased-girl which was objected by deceased-mother who advised her daughter to severe relationship with A-1 and deceased-girl parted the company of A-1 - A-1 was angry with his friend-appellant committed murder of mother and daughter - Both the accused made disclosure statements which led to certain recoveries - Courts below convicted A-1 and appellant on the basis of depositions of witnesses and recoveries - Supreme Court upheld the conviction of A-1 - In case
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