Supreme Court · 1992 INSC 114 · Decided 21 April 1992
Munni Singh and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1992 INSC 114 · [1992] 2 S.C.R. 605
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 572/1981
- Decided
- 21 April 1992
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, S.C. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 396; CrPC
Headnote
AND ORS. A v. STATE OF BIHAR APRIL 21, 1992 (MADAN MOHAN PUNCHHI ANDS. C. AGRAWAL, ~J.] B Penal Code, JB{J()-Section 396-Dacoity--Conviction-Appreciation of evidence-Four sets of prosecution witnesses-Evidence of three sets not reliable-Reliability of the fourth set-Conviction basing on the village, where the crime took place in the house of P.W.11. The accused were closely related. P.W. ll's cousin and uncle were D P.W.3 and the deceased, respectively, and P.W.2 was also a close relative of P.W.11. There was a simmering discontent between the family of P.W.11 and the family of the
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