Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 66 · Decided 7 March 1972
Mahabir Mandal and Others v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 66 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 639
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 97/1969
- Decided
- 7 March 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, G.K. MITTER, HANS RAJ KHANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 201, 1208, 120B, 120R; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
639 Penni Code-Murder-Death hy poisoning-Tests. The fi'i:H apoellant c1nd another were conviced under s. 302 read 11ith ss. 34. 1208 and 201 of the Penal aide and two other accused who wcte tried along with them were convicted under ss. 120B and 201. On 1hc materials on record, the trial. Court for the death of ·the deceased by poisoning. · · The doctor who performed thr~ post mortem examination on the dead body gave ~videnc.e that the death of the deceased might have been a normal death. He ruled out an asphyxia! death by morphine poisoning, hccause,
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