Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 201 · Decided 11 April 2001
Lokeman Shah and ANR. ETC. ETC. v. State of West Bengal ETC. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 201 · [2001] 2 S.C.R. 1095
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 784/2000
- Decided
- 11 April 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI, S.N. PHUKAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 142; CrPC Section 164; Evidence Act Section 157
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Sections 142: 149 & 302-Murder-Unlawful as­ sembly-Murder of Police personnel by accused in a communal riot-First accused sentenced to death by Trial Court-High Court upholding conviction A B but altered sentence to life imprisonment-Conviction on basis of confessional C ber of unlawful assembly-Conviction and sentence upheld-Criminal Proce- dure Code, 1974--Section 164. Second accused sentenced to death by Trial Court and High Court­ Conviction on basis of evidence of eye-witness and corroboration of his state- D ment by another witness-Admissibility
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