Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 387 · Decided 6 May 2015
Iqbal and Another v. State of Utiar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 387 · [2015] 6 S.C.R. 239
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1663/2012
- Decided
- 6 May 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 396
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 396 - Conviction under - By courts below- On appeal, held: Conviction solely based on c identification of the accused person by eye-witnesses and their identification in Test-Identification Parade - Identification of the accused by the eye-witnesses was doubtful in view pitch of darkness and hence has to be viewed with caution by looking for D corroboration - No recovery of stolen property or weapons of crime was made to connect the accused persons with the crime - In absence of corroborating evidence, conviction solely based on the identification of the accused,
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