Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 27 · Decided 11 February 1981
Dudh Nath Pandey v. The State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 27 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 771
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 163/1979
- Decided
- 11 February 1981
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, A.P. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
.. • ' 771 DUDH NATH PANDEY v. THE STATE OF U.P. February 11, 1981 [Y. V. CHANDRACHUD, C.J. AND A. P. SEN, J.] Indian Penal Code-Section 302-For the offence of murder the nornial s~n­ tence is sentence of life imprisonment and not of death-Witnesses failed ta rtveal the whole C their correctness. Plea of alibi-Its postulates. The prosecution alleged that when the appellant, a motor-car driver who was living as a tenant in the out-house of the bungalow belonging to the famil; of the deceased, developed a fancy for the sister of the deceased. His overtures created D
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