Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 420 · Decided 29 March 2019
Pattu Rajan v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 420 · [2019] 5 S.C.R. 535
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 680/2009
- Decided
- 29 March 2019
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, INDIRA BANERJEE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 173, 173(8); Evidence Act Section 45
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Abduction and murder of husband of complainant (PW1) - Prosecution case was that accused no.1 wanted to take PW1 as his third wife knowing that she was already married to victim-deceased and made several attempts with the help of other accused to severe PW1 and her husband - Prior to the day of incident, the deceased and PW1 were abducted by accused no.1 and his henchmen but on the same day were released for which a separate complaint was lodged by PW1 and separate trial was conducted - Subsequent to this event of abduction, accused
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