Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 709 · Decided 23 October 1997
Nazrul Mondal and ORS. v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 709 · [1997] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 697
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 232/1988
- Decided
- 23 October 1997
- Bench
- G.T. NANAVATI, V.N. KHARE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860 : S. 302 read with S. 149 : Murder by members of unlawful assembly-All eye witnesses related to the deceased­ Their evidence-Admissibility of-Held : Courts below were right in placing C reliance on their evidence-Further, where accused are named in FIR as accomplices, of a group of persons which had assaulted and killed the deceased. The incident was said to have been witnessed by PW-1, brother of the deceased, PW-4, his daughter, PW-5, his son, PW- D 3 and PW-6. It was contended before the trial Court that these witnesses were all related to the deceased,
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