Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 163 · Decided 17 August 1970
Khedu Mohton and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 163 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 839
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 162/1967
- Decided
- 17 August 1970
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 143; CrPC Section 417(3), 431
Headnote
BJ~ Code of Criminal Procedure (Act 5 of 1898), ss. 417(3) and 4"1- Arreol again.it acquirtal-Death o) complainanf-/f appeal abates. Practice and Procedure-Powers of appellate court in appeals C against acquittal. D E F G H The appellants were prosecuted for dishonestly cutting and removing court convicted them. The •PJ?ellate court •cq11itted them 011 the grounds : ( 1) that the prosecution witnesses were unreli~ble; (2) that there was considerable delay in filing the 1.om· plaint for which no explanation was given; and (3) the Inspector of Police who was
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