Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 141 · Decided 14 February 2007
Jakki @ Selvaraj and ANR. v. State REP. BY the Ip, Coimbatore
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 141 · [2007] 2 S.C.R. 584
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 205/2007
- Decided
- 14 February 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 148, 302, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-ss. 148 and 302-Prosecution for murder-Three ... eye-witnesses to the incident-Two of the witnesses, turned hostile-Evidence / of one eye-witness corroborated by medical evidence-On the basis of evidence c of the eye-witness all the accused convicted by trial court-High Court the co-accused finding the evidence of the eyewitness insufficient to fasten the guilt on them-On appeal, held: Conviction of the two accused on the basis of evidence of the eye-witness justified-Even when the testimony D of a witness is discarded in part vis-a-vis some other co-accused
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