Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1013 · Decided 20 August 2025
Neelam Kumari v. The State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1013 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 1464
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 582/2013
- Decided
- 20 August 2025
- Bench
- AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC
Headnote
Whether the conviction and sentence of the appellant u/s.302, IPC for the murder of her infant son ought to be set aside. Evidence - Extra-judicial confessions - Conviction based upon - When not justified - Appellant was convicted of her infant son based on alleged extra-judicial confessions made to her husband (PW-1), Ward Member (PW-3), Pradhan (PW-4) and PW-5, and sentenced to life imprisonment - Conviction and sentence affirmed by High Court - Interference with: Held: Extra-judicial confessions are weak
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