Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 272 · Decided 23 July 1998
Kavita v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 272 · [1998] 3 S.C.R. 902
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 695/1992
- Decided
- 23 July 1998
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, M. SRINIVASAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 309, 306; Evidence Act Section 24
Headnote
v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU JULY 23, 1998 [M.M. PUNCHHI C.J.I. AND M. SRINIVASAN, J.) Criminal Law : Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 24. Extra-judicial confession-Value of-Held: Depends upon the Veracity of the witness to whom it is made-Witness need not give actual words used by the accused-In the 1860 : Sections 302 and 309. Appreciation of evidence-Accused jumped into well after throwing her two children in it-Evidence of the doctor who performed the post-mortem not clear as to how the body of the son instantly floated while that of the E daughter folly sunk in the water-Held : In
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