Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 446 · Decided 2 April 2008
Prajeet Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 446 · [2008] 5 S.C.R. 969
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1621/2007
- Decided
- 2 April 2008
- Bench
- P.P. NAOLEKAR, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Brutal murder of 3 innocent defenceless children -Also injury to parents and another child - Conviction under s. 302 and award of death sentence - c Justification of - Held: Justified as evidence of eyewitnesses cogent and point to the guilt of accused - They were and therefore their presence at the time of incident cannot be ruled out - These witnesses were direct relations of deceased children and thus D ". plea of false implication of accused leaving actual culprit is highly improbable and unacceptable - Punishment of death sentence appropriate as
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