Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 272 · Decided 5 April 2024
Manikandan v. State BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 272 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 234
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1609/2011
- Decided
- 5 April 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, PANKAJ MITHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Matter pertains to the tutoring of the material witnesses by the police and its effect on the prosecution case. Evidence - Witnesses - Tutoring of the material witnesses by the police - Effect: Held: This is a blatant act by the police to tutor witnesses - It amounts to gross misuse of power by the police machinery - Police cannot be allowed to tutor the prosecution witness - On facts, the appellants convicted and sentenced u/ss. 302/34 IPC - Day before the evidence of the prosecution witnesses was
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