Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1298 · Decided 10 December 2009
Kailash Nath v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1298 · [2010] 3 S.C.R. 599
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1416/2008
- Decided
- 10 December 2009
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 3021149 and 3071149 - Eight persons involved in c causing death of one of the victims and injuring the other by gunshots - Conviction by· trial court - High . Court convicting only one accused who fired the shots and acquitting others giving them.benefit of doubt- false implication of other persons who had 0 not caused injuries, accused should also be acquitted - HELD: Merely because some of the accused who had not caused any injuries to the deceased or the witnesses have been given benefit of doubt would not mean that they were not present - It is only as
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