Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 333 · Decided 25 July 2003
Dhirajbhai Gorakhbhai Nayak v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 333 · [2003] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 754
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 870/2002
- Decided
- 25 July 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 302; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Section 300 Exceptions I and 4 and Section 3021 Criminal Trial: Murder-Deceased succumbed to injuries inflicted by the accused­ Trial Court convicted and sentenced him to life imprisonment-Affirmed by the High Court-On appeal, Held: Merely because name of one of the after commission of the crime, that is not a suspicious D circumstance-Besides, psychic trauma/mental condition of witnesses and the close relatives of the deceased, can not be lost sight of-Testimony of the witnesses rightly found credible and cogent by the courts below-No infirmity therein
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