Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 986 · Decided 7 November 2023
Hariprasad @ Kishan Sahu v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 986 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 214
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1182/2012
- Decided
- 7 November 2023
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI, DIPANKAR DATTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 154; Evidence Act Section 32; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issues for consideration: Whether the delay of about more than one year in registering the FIR could be said to be fatal to the case of prosecution; whether the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that the deceased had died due to administration of poison and the poison in the liquor and made the deceased to drink it on the previous date of his death. Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Allegation of murder by poisoning - Delay in registering FIR - When not fatal: Held: FIR being only a corroborative piece of evidence and not a
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