Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 104 · Decided 12 April 1987
Kansa Behera v. State of Orissa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 104 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 1096
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 323/1978
- Decided
- 12 April 1987
- Bench
- V. KHALID, G.L. OZA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 3, 14
Headnote
Indian ·Penal Code-Section 302-Conviction on circumstantial evidence-When valid-Circumstance of accused being with the deceased on the evening of occurrence-Whether sufficient to convict ,,1.. accused. Indian Evidence Act, 1872-Sections 3 and 14-Circumstantia/ evidence-Conviction based accused from whom instrument of offence recovered is acquitted. The prosecution alleged that the deceased had some land dispute with one of the accused and his two brothers, that the deceased was done away through the instrumentality of the appellant and that his body with the throat cut was
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