Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 242 · Decided 29 April 2002
Mundrika Mahto and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 242 · [2002] 3 S.C.R. 575
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 701/1993
- Decided
- 29 April 2002
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, Y.K. SABHARWAL (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 201, 302, 34; CrPC; Evidence Act; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Murder-FIR-No mention of names of some of the accused-Effect of-Held, considering the shock on the minds of eye-witnesses on whose C statement FIR was recorded and when large number of accused were involved in the commission of crime, not naming of some of the and 201. Evidence Act, 1872: Testimony of the eye-witnesses-Appreciation of-Held, within a short time of occurrence of crime the statement of informant naming the accused was recorded though not corroborated by the statement of other eye­ witnesses-Held, there is no scope for false
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