Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 232 · Decided 11 September 1969
Jaffer Hussein Dastgir v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 232 · [1970] 2 S.C.R. 332
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 84/1968
- Decided
- 11 September 1969
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 379, 34; Evidence Act Section 27, 25
Headnote
Jndian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 27--Scope of. The appellant was charged under s. 379/34 l.P.C. for committing the.ft of a parcel containing diamonds along~ with the, two other persons. In the course of investigation the police went to a newspaper office where they learnt that one of the co-accused diamonds, stating that it was in his rossession, and left ·an address with the newspaper. The police could not trace that co-accused, but later, as a result of infurmation f\ftnished by the appellant to the police and the panchas the police were taken to a pJace where the diamonds were
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