Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 327 · Decided 25 April 2014
Laut Kumar Yadav @ Kuri v. State of Utiar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 327 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 668
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1022/2006
- Decided
- 25 April 2014
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- ss. 302, 376 rlw s. 511 - Murder- C Attempt to rape - Victim, an 18 year old girl - Her neck cut with a sickle - Circumstantial evidence, viz. a) sniffer dog­ tracking evidence, b) recovery of sickle, c) recovery of clothes of accused-appellant and d) past conduct of teasing of the deceased -. Conviction of D appellant- Justification - Held: Justified - There was no delay in reporting the matter to the police - Merely because PW-1 was father of the deceased, his evidence could not be doubted on that count in absence of any suspicion - PW-9, produced to prove
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