Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 134 · Decided 30 July 1979
Mohan Singh v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 134 · [1980] 1 S.C.R. 148
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 363/1979
- Decided
- 30 July 1979
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, V.D. TULZAPURKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 (Act 45), Section 201-Causing disappearance of eviw dence of offence to screen offender legal punishment-Absence of legal eviw dence or any material on the record of the factual ingredients of an offence under Section 201 l.P.C. entitled the discharge of the accused under Section is illegal. On the allegations that one Padam Singh was shot dead in the farm of the appellant by Doongar Singh and two others on 4-3-1978, that the appellant'& car No. R.J.F. 2118 was made us'e of in carrying the dead body to be· thrown into a well on the boundMy of village Ramasani
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