Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 265 · Decided 11 April 2014
Dharam Deo Yadav v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 265 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 650
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 369/2006
- Decided
- 11 April 2014
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 364, 394; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 201, 364 and 394 - Prosecution under - Circumstantial evidence - Deceased last C seen in the company of accused - Recovery of skeleton of the deceased u/s. 27 of Evidence Act .:... DNA test proved. her identity - Conviction and death sentence by courts below - Held: reasonable doubt - However, death sentence reduced to life o imprisonment without any remission as there is no evidence as to manner of commission of offence. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.313 - Evidentiary value - False answers by accused may offer an additional E link in the chain of
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