Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 40 · Decided 18 January 2005
Jagjit Singh @ Jagga v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 40 · [2005] 1 S.C.R. 559
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 226/2004
- Decided
- 18 January 2005
- Bench
- P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, B.P. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 460, 458, 376, 34; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302, 460 and 458 rlw 34-Murder of three persons-Out of the two accused, one absconded-Conviction of the other A B . accused i.e. appellant on the basis of testimony of child witness-On facts, C held, th'3 child witness implicated appellant at the prompting of her his own uncle-It is possible that the offence was committed by the other accused-Also there was nothing to connect appellant with the recfJvery made from the place of occurrence-Hence, appellant entitled to benefit of doubt. D Penal Code, 1860-Section 376-Rape-Chargefor, not.framed-Also no
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