Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 47 · Decided 9 January 2025
Goverdhan & ANR. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 47 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 657
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 116/2011
- Decided
- 9 January 2025
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, K.V. VISWANATHAN, N KOTISWAR SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 304, 302; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
The two accused-appellants and their father-the third accused, were convicted by the trial court u/s.302 r/w s.34 IPC for assaulting a person with deadly weapons causing his death. High Court upheld the conviction of the appellants while setting aside father. The complainant (PW-6) who filed the FIR was initially projected as the eye witness but later turned hostile during the trial and it was only PW-10 (mother of the deceased) who claimed to be the eye witness. The conviction of appellants was challenged in the instant appeal as being
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