Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 154 · Decided 16 July 1991
Gurmej Singh and ORS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 154 · [1991] 2 S.C.R. 966
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 778/1979
- Decided
- 16 July 1991
- Bench
- A.M. AHMADI, V. RAMASWAMI, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Indian Penal Code-Section 302 read with Section 34--Con­ viction based on the evidence of close relatives being interested testi­ mony-Whether valid. Non-examination of one of the eye-witnesses-Effect of. The appellants and the deceased Harnam Singh, were neighbours and had strained they had quarrelled over the D passage of sullage water a few months before the incident; the appel­ lants had diverted their sullage water towards the house of the deceased and the latter had protested and frustrated their effort, with the result the water collected in a pool near the
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