Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 414 · Decided 21 July 2010
Narinder Kumar v. State of Jammu & Kashmir
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 414 · [2010] 8 S.C.R. 779
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2093/2008
- Decided
- 21 July 2010
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Ranbir Penal Code - s. 302 - Culpable homicide amounting to murder - Exchange of hot words and abuses between the accused-appellant and the victim leading to C death of the latter due to gunshot injury -Testimony of four eye witnesses - Conviction of appellant - Justification of - Held: On eye witnesses was consistent in regard to the genesis of the incident leading to the death of the victim - Ocular evidence D of the witnesses was also fully corroborated by the medical evidence - In the absence of anything to suggest that the witnesses had any reason to screen the real offender
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