Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 283 · Decided 13 March 2007
Namdeo v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 283 · [2007] 3 S.C.R. 939
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 914/2006
- Decided
- 13 March 2007
- Bench
- C.K. THAKKER, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 134
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code,1860: Section 302-Conviction under-Based on testimony of solitary witness-Held, quality of evidence and not quantity of evidence which is C material-Section 134 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872. Deceased and the accused, living nearby, possessed she goats, sheep and she buffalos by the accused who harboured a D suspicion that she goats and sheep belonged to him died due to some disease and the deceased and his friends were responsible for the death of those - r animals as deceased had played a witch craft. This resulted in accused abusing the deceased and
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