Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 733 · Decided 18 November 1997
Hargovandas Devrajbhai Patel and ORS. v. The State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 733 · [1997] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 154
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 770/1991
- Decided
- 18 November 1997
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, M. SRINIVASAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC
Headnote
Penql Code, 1860: Sections 201, 302134, 304 Part II read with Section 114-Murder-lnterrogation of stranger in police station-Severely beaten C up-Became unconscious-Taken in police jeep-Subsequently highly decomposed body recovered from Jungle-Body identified by the relatives­ Trial Court and sentenced them-On appeal, held, several links in the chain of circumstances missing-Prosecution failed to prove that the accused committed murder-Several discrepancies and unexplained factors 0 causing doubt on the identification of the dead body-Henc~ accused not guilty-Conviction set
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