Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 387 · Decided 24 March 2025
Firoz Khan Akbarkhan v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 387 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 933
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 257/2013
- Decided
- 24 March 2025
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302; CrPC Section 161, 164
Headnote
Whether the concurrent conviction of the appellant u/s.302 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 is justified; whether he is entitled to remission of sentence. Evidence - Delay in recording statements of witnesses - When not fatal - was convicted u/s.302 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 - Appellant inter alia contended that he was implicated in a false case as there was delay in recording of the statements of the witnesses: Held: Delay in recording witness statements is not always fatal to the prosecution's
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