Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 255 · Decided 4 October 1991
Mathura Prashad and ANR. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 255 · [1991] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 425
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 624/1979
- Decided
- 4 October 1991
- Bench
- S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 396; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
~ '"'( MATHURA PRASHAD AND ANR. v. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH OCTOBER 4, 1991 [S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN AND M. FATHIMA BEEVI, JJ.) Constitution of India, 1950-Article 136--Criminal appeal-Concur- rent findings of fact--lnterference by Supreme Court--Circumstances indi- coted. Indian Penal Code, report-Inconsistency of witness--Evidence on appellant's par- ticipation~eld guilt of the appellants-accused not proved. According to the prosecution, when the deceased a petition-writer, was sleeping in a room with his wife (PW.19) on the ill-fated night, he heard someone knocking at the
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