Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1358 · Decided 20 November 1996
Gajanan v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1358 · [1996] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 935
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 708/1991
- Decided
- 20 November 1996
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860 : S. 302134-Appellant along with another prosecuted for murder­ Trial Court acquitted them holding that witnesses claiming to be eye witnesses did not see the actual incident; their testimony does not inspire C confidence and is in conflict with medical evidence; the take place in the manner suggested by the prosecution- On appeal High Court convicted appellant u!s 302 and maintained acquittal of the co-accused-Held, High Court should not have interfered with the D order of acquittal more so when the reasons given by the trial court were neither perverse nor
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