Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 637 · Decided 3 June 2022
Mahendra Singh and ORS. v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 637 · [2022] 6 S.C.R. 737
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 764/2021
- Decided
- 3 June 2022
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, HIMA KOHLI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 r/w s.149, and s.148 - Murder - Conviction of accused-appellants on basis of sole testimony of PW6 - High Court found PW6 to be in the category of a witness who was "neither wholly reliable nor wholly unreliable", and upheld conviction - Challenged, on ground that PW6 fell in the category of a "wholly unreliable" witness - Held: From evidence of PW3 and PW4 which was fully corroborated by evidence of DW3 and DW4, it was clear that PW6 could not have witnessed the incident - Evidence of PW6 would
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