Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 656 · Decided 1 May 2009
Himmat Sukhadeo Wahurwagh & ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 656 · [2009] 7 S.C.R. 364
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1641/2007
- Decided
- 1 May 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI, AFTAB ALAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 3021149, 302, 149; Evidence Act Section 118
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 147, 148 and 3021149 - Murder 'F of three persons in two incidents - By eight accused - One of ..... the deceased making dying declaration inculpating the c accused - Eye-witness to both the incident - Two of the witnesses were children - Recovery of weapon of offence of blood matched with that of deceased - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - On appeal, held.' Conviction justified - Eye-witness to the first incident, though a child, cannot be discarded - His evidence ..... D duly corroborated by dying declaration - Witnesses to the second
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