Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 864 · Decided 6 August 2019
Jagdish and Another v. The State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 864 · [2019] 11 S.C.R. 22
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1864/2009
- Decided
- 6 August 2019
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 148
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 149 and 148 - Involvement of 13 accused in the offence including two juveniles - Conviction of three accused by trial court - High Court acquitted one of the accused while upholding the conviction of the two accused (appellants) - Appeal Held: In view of the previous animosity between the parties and the relationship between sole eye-witness (PW1) and the deceased false implication cannot be ruled out - Susceptibility of number and nature of injuries are improbable in the facts of the case - High Court has wrongly
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