Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1399 · Decided 8 December 2025
Govind Mandavi v. State of Chattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1399 · [2025] 12 S.C.R. 560
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5315/2025
- Decided
- 8 December 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302, 460; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Whether the trial Court as well as the High Court committed grave errors in facts as well as in law while appreciating the evidence available on record and convicting the accused-appellant for the offences alleged u/s.302 r/w. s.34 IPC. Penal Code, 1860 and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - s.3(2) (v) - One B was killed by masked persons - FIR was registered - A perusal of FIR makes it clear that informant-PW-1 was not an eye-witness to the incident; rather, his knowledge of the occurrence was
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