Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 37 · Decided 14 January 2020
Padum Kumar v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 37 · [2020] 1 S.C.R. 57
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 87/2020
- Decided
- 14 January 2020
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 467, 468
Headnote
Criminal Law - Evidence - Opinion of hand writing expert - Appreciation of - Appellant-accused was working as Postman at the relevant time - On 09.04.92, PW-3 sent registered envelope to the Complainant-PW-1 - Envelope contained four Indira Vikas Patra of value who made complaint to the Department of Posts - Information was received that a person named "Mohan" received the aforesaid registry - PW-1 and his son named Devesh Mohan (PW-2) went to the Post Office and saw the signature where it was written "D. Mohan"
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