Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 60 · Decided 1 February 2002
Deepak Kumar v. Ravi Virmani and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 60 · [2002] 1 S.C.R. 786
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 927/2000
- Decided
- 1 February 2002
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 452, 386, 324; CrPC Section 313; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Criminal Trial: Murder case-Examination of witnesses-Trustworthiness-Witnesses C though interested can be relied upon provided the evidence available on record leads to the guilt of the accused-Independent witness-Availability or non­ availability needs to be recorded-Reason has to be the event of winks of doubt, the Court in the interest of justice, can re-appraise evidence before recording its concurrence with the findings, challenged in the appeal under Article 1 36 of the Constitution-Held, Burden of the prosecution to prove beyond all reasonable doubts has not been
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