Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 343 · Decided 16 April 2018
Navaneethakrishnan v. The State BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 343 · [2018] 6 S.C.R. 749
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1134/2013
- Decided
- 16 April 2018
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 26, 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w. s.34, ss.364 and 379 - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - FIR registered by PW-8 stating that 'J' employed as driver in his travel agency along with another person took his van and did not return for two days - Next day a 'J' - Prosecution case was that A-1 confessed about committing the crime along with appellants (A-2 and A-3) stating that they abducted driver and his friend, and caused death by strangulating them and thereafter drowned their bodies in water streams - A-1 also took the
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