Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 104 · Decided 15 April 1968
Karnesh Kumar Singh & ORS. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 104 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 774
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 213/1967
- Decided
- 15 April 1968
- Bench
- V. RAMASWAMI, J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 149; Evidence Act Section 114(8), 114(g)
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860, ss. 302, 201 and 149-Whether inconsisten­ cies and discrepancies in evidence showed misca"iage of justice-Four out of ten appellants sentenced to death a11d others to life imprisonment­ Distinction bared on the four being anned with dangerous weapons-If does not produce some of the eye .. witnesses--When may be drawn. The ten appellants were convicted under ss. 302 and 20 I both read with s. 149 of the J.P.C. mainly on the evidence of four eye-witnesses who were members of the family di the two murdered persons. Four of the appellants Were
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