Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 581 · Decided 11 December 2012
Oma @ Omprakash and ANR. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 581 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 740
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 143/2007
- Decided
- 11 December 2012
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 395, 396, 397
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 395, 396 and 397 - Prosecution under - Offences committed by the two appellants-accused c with the nine absconding accused - Arrest of the appellants (A 1 and A2) after 10 years in some other case - Conviction by trial court and award of death sentence - High Court upheld to life imprisonment - The appeal to this Court abated against A 1 due to his rJeath - D Held: Prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt so far as A2 is concerned - No Tl Parade was conducted in respect of A2 and the witnesses could not properly identify him in the court -
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