Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 141 · Decided 10 March 2010
Jiten Besra v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 141 · [2010] 3 S.C.R. 271
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1499/2007
- Decided
- 10 March 2010
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Appellant convicted by Courts below for killing his parents-in-law - On basis of circumstantial evidence viz. i) enmity of appellant with his C parents-in-law; ii) blood stains on clothes of appellant and iii) presence of appellant in the village of deceased on the Circumstances of the case did not point out towards the guilt of appellant, without any other inference being probable - Evidence of PWs D suggests that appellant was on visiting terms with his parents­ in-law, hence, circumstance of enmity cannot be relied upon as an incriminating
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