Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 312 · Decided 18 April 2024
Kirpal Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 312 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 707
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1052/2009
- Decided
- 18 April 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 302; CrPC
Headnote
The appellant was convicted u/s. 302, s.307 IPC and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and rigorous imprisonment for 5 years respectively. Both sentences were to run concurrently. An appeal preferred by the appellant before the High Court was dismissed. Penal - Prosecution case was that victim went to sleep in chaubara of the house which was not having any shutter, whereas PW-5 (first informant) along with the other family members slept in a room on the ground floor - PW-5 heard a knock on the door in which she was sleeping - She
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