Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 60 · Decided 19 March 1974
Hallu and Others v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 60 · [1974] 3 S.C.R. 652
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 142/1970
- Decided
- 19 March 1974
- Bench
- M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149; CrPC Section 154
Headnote
OTHERS I'. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH March 19, 1974 (M. H. BEG ANO Y. V. CHANORACHUO, JJ.) Crimin.:U trial-Cast of rioting and murder-Correct' approach to eridenct­ FIR if should be givtn by one having persona/ know/edge of the incitknt. The appeUants, along with others, were charged with evidence but the duty of the court is to have regard to the broad probabilities of the A case; (b) in a factious village independent witnesses arc unwilling to come forward C and therefore the testimony of eye witnesses who may be interested in the doceased cannot be discarded merely for that
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