Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 133 · Decided 12 February 2018
Dinesh Kumar Kalidas Patel v. The State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 133 · [2018] 1 S.C.R. 641
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 265/2018
- Decided
- 12 February 2018
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201, 202
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.201 - Whether conviction under s.201 could be maintained while acquitting the accused of main offence - Held: A charge under s.201 can be independently laid and conviction maintained also, in case the prosecution is able to establish that an offence had been had the knowledge or the reason to believe that the offence had been committed, the said person has caused disappearance of evidence and such act of disappearance has been done with the intention of screening the offender from legal punishment - Mere suspicion is not sufficient, it must
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