Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1267 · Decided 12 December 2007
Keshav v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1267 · [2007] 13 S.C.R. 264
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 620/2006
- Decided
- 12 December 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Prosecution for murder - Circumstantial evidence -Accused and deceased last seen together -Accused making extra-judicial confession to wife of the deceased c - No FIR or missing persons report lodged - Five days after the alleged incident, human skeleton, clothes of Afotive was alleged that accused was demanding back the loan given to deceased - Recovery of knife at the behest of the D accused -- Conviction by courts below on the basis of motive and the circumstances of the case - On appeal, held: Conviction not ;ustified- Conviction cannot be based solely
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