Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 634 · Decided 16 September 2014
Dilawar Singh & ORS. v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 634 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 844
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1362/2010
- Decided
- 16 September 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 rlw s. 149 - Fatal attack - Nine accused -Conviction of A-1, A-3, A-7 and acquittal of rest of C · accused - Conviction challenged on the ground that PW-6, the father of the victim-deceased was not present at the spot and thus was not an eye-witness; that there was suspicion on the prosecution version - Held: Every person who witnesses a murder reacts o in his own way - The sequence of events clearly showed that PW-6 was taking all steps to save life of his son - Thus evidence of PW-6 cannot be disbelieved simply because he did not react in a particular
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