Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 174 · Decided 17 April 2012
Hiralal Pandey and ORS. v. State of U.P
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 174 · [2012] 3 S.C.R. 1066
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 65/2008
- Decided
- 17 April 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c s.302134 - Two persons shot dead by three accused - Conviction and life imprisonment - Upheld by High Court - Held: The evidence of the son of one of the deceased that the accused fired at them when he and the two victims were going on a motorcycle was corroborated by another incident reached there on a cycle along with others - The oral evidence was further supported by the medical evidence - Minor defects in investigation cannot be a ground to disbelieve the prosecution case, which has been proved beyond reasonable doubt through the evidence of two E eye-witnesses as
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