Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 1045 · Decided 21 November 2016
Harpal Singh @ Chhota v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 1045 · [2016] 8 S.C.R. 334
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2539/2014
- Decided
- 21 November 2016
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 161, 164
Headnote
Penal Code, I860: ss.364A, 395, 4I2, 47I, I20B- Conspiracy and abduction for ransom and detaining victim under threat to cause C death or hurt - Conviction by courts below - Challenged - Held: Evidence of victim as a whole was truthful - His elaborate testimony not only projected the stage-wise release, the same remained unshaken substantially even by his cross-examination - Evidence adduced vis-a-vis the stage-wise recovery of the currency notes, fire-arms, the Honda D City car etc. from the successive disclosures made by the accused persons also established their complicity in the
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