Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 227 · Decided 14 March 2023
Pawan Kumar Chourasia v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 227 · [2023] 2 S.C.R. 875
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2230/2010
- Decided
- 14 March 2023
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201, 302, 34
Headnote
Criminal Law - Evidence - Extra-Judicial Confession - Conviction based on, when not justified - Appellant was convicted for offences punishable u/s.302 r/w 34 and s.201, IPC based on extra-judicial confession - Held: Case of the prosecution was that the appellant had PW6 including the complainant himself whose son was killed did not support prosecution - PW7 to PW9, the only material prosecution witnesses were not consistent about the place at which the alleged confession was made - Even after the alleged extra-judicial confession of committing
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