Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 1086 · Decided 1 December 2016
Khokan Giri @ Madhab v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 1086 · [2016] 9 S.C.R. 759
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1399/2007
- Decided
- 1 December 2016
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 120B, 394; Evidence Act Section 1331114, 114
Headnote
759 KHOKAN GIRI @ MADHAB v. STATE OF WEST BENGAL (Criminal Appeal No. 1399 of2007) DECEMBER 01, 2016 [A. K. SIKRI AND ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, JJ.) Evidence Act, 1872 - ss.1331114 - Confessional statement of accomplice - Admissibility and appreciation of - Murder of elderly couple at their flat - - Plea of appellant that High Court wrongly gave undue importance to the testimony of PW3 and based the conviction of appellant thereupon, in absence of independent corroborative evidence in material particulars - Held: As a matter of practice, the evidence of accomplice should not be accepted
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