Supreme Court · 1993 INSC 214 · Decided 14 May 1993
Goutam Kundu v. Stte of West Bengal and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1993 INSC 214 · [1993] 3 S.C.R. 917
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 443/1993
- Decided
- 14 May 1993
- Bench
- A.M. AHMADI, S. MOHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 125; Evidence Act Section 4
Headnote
Code of Criminal Proced11re, 1973: S. 125-Maintenance-Granted to wife and child-Paternity of child-Disp11ted-H11sband's application for blood group test of wife and child-Held, p11rpose of application to avoid paymem of maimenance-Prayer rightly ref11sed by co11rts below. Evidence Act, 1872 : A B can only be displaced by strong preponderance of evidence and not by mere balance o.f probabilities. Blood group test-Evidemion value of-When can be ordered- Courts must examine conseq11ence o.f ordering blood group test. Respondent no. 2 was married to the appellant. She went to reside with
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