Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 285 · Decided 19 April 2004
Janak Singh and ANR. v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 285 · [2004] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 378
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 924/2001
- Decided
- 19 April 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
ANR. A v. ST ATE OF UTT AR PRADESH APRIL 19, 2004 B [DORAISWAMY RAJU AND ARIJIT PASAYAT, iJJ.] Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 rlw Section 34: Murder-Trial of accused and his accomplice-Joint liability-Reliance C upon testimony of eyewitnesses-Trial Court convicted both the accused jointly for direct evidence of the eyewitness was that the accused committed murder by firing a gun, inconsistency between the statement of the witness and the medical opinion relating to D distance would be of no significance-No noticeable discrepancy found in the evidence of the witnesses-Thus
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