Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1115 · Decided 3 October 2019
Ishwari Lal Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1115 · [2019] 13 S.C.R. 893
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1416/2017
- Decided
- 3 October 2019
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, R. SUBHASH REDDY, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364, 34, 302; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.364/34 r/w. s.120B, ss.302/34 r/w. s.120B and s.201 - Gruesome murder of small boy as a human sacrifice - Prosecution case was that a child (boy) was found missing from his house - When his parents were searching for him, they noticed loud in the house of appellants - They entered the house along with other village people and found freshly dug mound of earth - Appellants-main accused who claimed to be "tantriks" admitted that they killed the boy with the help of other co-accused and buried him to attain
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)