Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 325 · Decided 8 May 2013
Manoj Giri v. State of Chhatisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 325 · [2013] 5 S.C.R. 529
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 470/2012
- Decided
- 8 May 2013
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 396, 376(2)(g), 395, 397, 398
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss.396 & 376(2)(g) - Dacoity with murder and gang rape - Five accused - Conviction of accused-appellant - Challenged - Held: No merit in the C contention that conviction of appellant was unjustified in view of acquittal of the other four accused - It cannot be said that five or more persons are convicted - Evidence against the four co-accused was not sufficient to convict them - If D properly convicted each one of them were liable to be punished with death uls.396 /PC- Since that did not happen, conviction of five persons - or even one - can stand - PW1 was a
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