Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 420 · Decided 4 August 2004
Naval Kishore Singh v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 420 · [2004] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 344
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1331/2003
- Decided
- 4 August 2004
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, AR. LAKSHMANAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 302, 34; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : S. 304-During an altercation one of the accused thrusting a spear C in abdomen of victim-Injury causing death of victim-Trial court convicted the two accused u!s 302 rlw s.34-High Court acquitted one of them and convicted the other u!s 304-Held, evidence of prosecution proves and sentence. D Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : s.J 13-Trial court examining the accused-Only three questions put to accused-Plea that there was serious error in not properly examining the accused-Held, Supreme Court deprecates the practice of putting together in a single question the
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