Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 819 · Decided 30 November 1995
Mukhtiar Singh and Ors . v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 819 · [1995] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 827
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 480/1985
- Decided
- 30 November 1995
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, K. VENKATASWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
B I.P.C.-Section 302 and 201-Allegation that the in-laws caused the death of the deceased-Cousin of deceased was the eye- witnes~lncident not told to anyone by the cousin-Held, conduct of the cousin is unnatural and his evidence is not reliable-Body cremated one day after the death-Held, c there cousin brother of the deceased. On March 11, 1984 at around 5 p.m., he heard noise from the side of the house of the appellant and went there. It is alleged that he D saw that the appellant No. 1 (who was the husband of the deceased) and his family members were assaulting the deceased with
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