Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 801 · Decided 5 September 2023
Harilal ETC. v. State of Madhya Pradesh (Now Chhattisgarh)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 801 · [2023] 12 S.C.R. 138
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2216/2011
- Decided
- 5 September 2023
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the High Court was justifi ed in upholding the order of the Sessions Judge convicting and sentencing the appellants to imprisonment for life u/s 302 IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Conviction of the accused u/s. 302 and courts below - Ocular account of two prosecution witness that the assault on the deceased took place at night, however, neither of them lodged the FIR, rather, a named FIR lodged next day by the village chowkidar of neighbouring village, even though she was not an eye witness -
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