Supreme Court · 1985 INSC 159 · Decided 19 July 1985
Narayan Singh & ORS. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1985 INSC 159 · [1985] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 319
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 308/1976
- Decided
- 19 July 1985
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A. VARADARAJAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149; Evidence Act
Headnote
Evidence Act - Murder - Extra-judicial Confession - Admissibility of - Circumstances when conviction can be based upon it. A B There was a chrbnic land dispute between the deceased and C the appellants. While the deceased was proceeding towards his village along with PW 11, the appellants The first information Report was lodged promptly. The Sessions Judge acquitted the accused on the grounds: (i) that PW ll who was sole eye-witness and had seen the occurrence, did not D immediately disclose the names of the accused to the inmates of the family of the deceased when he went
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