Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 994 · Decided 4 September 1996
Kamta Tiwari v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 994 · [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 507
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 267/1996
- Decided
- 4 September 1996
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 363, 376, 201
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302, 363, 376 and 201-Death Sentence-Rarest of rare case-Kidnapping, Rape and murder of the minor girl-Conviction based on circumstantial evidence-Held, in the facts and A B circumstances death sentence awarded by Courts below is upheld. C A minor girl, aged and her dead body was thrown into a well. The Prosecution relied upon the circumstantial evidence, since there D was no eye-witness. The defence of the appellant was that he had been falsely implicated. Both the trial Court and the High Court, after discussing the evidence of all the
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