Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 386 · Decided 9 May 2014
Dhan Raj @ Dhand v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 386 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 476
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1410/2010
- Decided
- 9 May 2014
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 341, 397
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.341 and s.392 r/w s. 397 - Murder and robbery - Circumstantial evidence - Extra-judicial confession of co­ accused - Held: In two confessions made by co-accused, there are inconsistencies as in the first confession he named D a different person as his accomplice articles whereas in the subsequent confession he named the two appellants as his accomplices and also stated that they had taken the recovered articles - The discrepancy is a glaring one as he named different accomplices in the E same incident - Further, his confessional statement does not
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