Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 464 · Decided 22 April 2022
Jafarudheen & ORS. v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 464 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 721
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 430/2015
- Decided
- 22 April 2022
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, M.M. SUNDRESH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149; CrPC Section 378, 161, 159; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.378: Appeal against acquittal - Scope of - Appellate Court has to consider whether trial court's view can be termed as a possible one, particularly when evidence on record has been analyzed - An order of acquittal adds up to the of the accused - Double presumption that enures in favour of the accused has to be disturbed only by thorough scrutiny on the accepted legal parameters - Thus, appellate court has to be relatively slow in reversing the order of trial court rendering acquittal. Criminal Law: FIR: Delay
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