Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 21 · Decided 5 January 2024
Pradeep Kumar v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 21 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 306
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1338/2010
- Decided
- 5 January 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
In a case based only on circumstantial evidence, conviction of the appellant u/s.302 read with s.34, Penal Code, 1860 for murder and sentence to rigorous imprisonment for life, if justified. Evidence - Circumstantial evidence - Case of the prosecution - Conviction of the appellant u/s.302 read with s.34, IPC - Propriety: Held: Versions of the three witnesses (PW-10, PW-11 and 12) are improbable and contradictory - The weapons recovered by the IO and the ones seen by the witnesses are only sticks - However, the deceased
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