Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 415 · Decided 24 April 2023
Maghavendra Pratap Singh @ Pankaj Singh v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 415 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 829
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 915/2016
- Decided
- 24 April 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 120; CrPC; Evidence Act; Arms Act Section 25(1)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 , 201, 120-B - Circumstantial Evidence - Criminal Conspiracy - Businessman-victim threatened for money and shot dead by two motorcyclists - Appellant and several others chargesheeted - Trial court convicted and sentenced all the accused However, the High Court acquitted all the accused except the appellant - On appeal, held: Prosecution case rests solely on circumstantial evidence, as none was found present at the scene of the incident - Neither of the independent witness supported the prosecution case -
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