Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 905 · Decided 23 September 2016
Dhal Singh Dewangan v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 905 · [2016] 8 S.C.R. 36
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 162/2014
- Decided
- 23 September 2016
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, UDAY UMESH LALIT, PRAFULLA C. PANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 6
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s . .J02 - Conviction and death sentence by courts below for causing death of wife and 5 daughters - Prosecution case that on the fateful night, complaint lodged that sound of shouting heard ji-om the house of the appellant - When police reached of the appellant informed that she saw appellant attacking his wife and five daughters with a sharp edged object - Bodies of the deceased found in a room and appellallf lying in one corner of the same room in an unconscious state with iron knife lying near his hand -Appellant sent to
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)