Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 1 · Decided 5 January 2021
Hari Om @ Hero v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 1 · [2021] 13 S.C.R. 49
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1256/2017
- Decided
- 5 January 2021
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA, KRISHNA MURARI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 396, 412, 3(2)(v); SC/ST Act Section 25; Arms Act Section 25
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.396, 412 - Six accused persons tried for committing offences u/ss.396 and 412 IPC, s.3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and s.25 of Arms Act - Trial court convicted all the accused persons for offence u/s accused persons while awarding death sentence to Appellant- Hari Om - High Court affirmed death sentence of appellant-Hari Om, life imprisonment of Appellant-Sanjay and Saurabh and acquitted other three accused persons - On appeal, held: Corroboration of the testimony of a child
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