Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 72 · Decided 3 March 1971
Matru Alias Girish Chandra v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 72 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 914
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 165/1968
- Decided
- 3 March 1971
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 382; Evidence Act Section 32; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Circumstanticl evidence-Weight of. Thi' appellant and two others were charged with the offences of murder of a woman and her three year old son by brutally staobing them, and theft of cash and ornaments from the house of the deceased. The offences were alleged to have been committed between 10 and and the wife of the appellant who was the next door neigh: bour during which the decease\! received an injury. The deceased wrote about this incident to her father. On the day of the occurrence when the husband of the deceased received infohnation of the murder he rushed home from his shop
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