Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 552 · Decided 16 October 2003
Kamaljit Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 552 · [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 785
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1286/2002
- Decided
- 16 October 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307
Headnote
Criminal Trial : Appreciation of evidence-Medical and ocular evidence-Minor C variations between-Effect of~Held: Ocular evidence takes primacy over medical evidence notwithstanding minor variation between them unless medical evidence completely rules out all possibilities of injuries-Penal Code, death of two persons and also for causing grievous injuries to another person. The trial court held that the prosecution case was suspect and directed acquittal primarily on the grounds that there was delay in lodging the FIR; that the medical evidence was at variation E with the ocular
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