Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 927 · Decided 4 August 2025
Narayan Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 927 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 568
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3343/2025
- Decided
- 4 August 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 300; Evidence Act Section 25, 8, 27
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in passing the impugned judgment relying on the confessional FIR filed by the appellant-accused himself and the medical evidence to uphold his conviction, however, altering it from s.302, IPC to s.304 Part I. Evidence Act, 1872 ss.302, 304 Part I - Confessional FIR, not admissible in evidence - Appellant-accused himself lodged FIR confessing the murder of the deceased in a drunken quarrel after the deceased allegedly made an obscene remark about the appellant's girlfriend - Convicted u/s.302, IPC
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