Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1063 · Decided 30 October 2017
Dinubhai Boghabhai Solanki v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1063 · [2017] 11 S.C.R. 979
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 492/2014
- Decided
- 30 October 2017
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, ASHOK BHUSHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 386; Constitution Article 226, 32
Headnote
A B Administration of criminal justice: Order of retrial - Maintainability of - Murder of an activist who had been co111plaining against the illegal mining in and around Gir Forest Sanctuary - · C The names of appellant and his nephew appeared in the said murder - The complainant, father of investigation, approached High Court for directions for proper investigation - High Court transferred the case to CBI - When the trial took place, out of 195 witnesses examined, as many as 105 witnesses· turned hostile - Complainant approached High Court D seeking de novo trial - By
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