Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 738 · Decided 18 August 2023
Harendra Rai v. The State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 738 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 403
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1726/2015
- Decided
- 18 August 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, ABHAY S. OKA, VIKRAM NATH (3-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 8, 56, 74
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issues for consideration: In a double murder case, wherein it was alleged that accused no.1-respondent no.2 had opened fi re from his rifl e resulting in injury to three persons, out of which two died, and the trial court had acquitted accused-respondent nos. 2 to 8 of all the charges, High Court in criminal revision, the issues before this Court were: (i) Whether the Supreme Court, in appeal against acquittal, could consider the High Court's judgment dated 13.03.2007 passed in a Habeas Corpus Writ Petition (fi led pursuant to abduction of CW1, mother of one of the
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