Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 3 · Decided 2 January 2023
Prem Singh v. State of NCT of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 3 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 800
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 01/2023
- Decided
- 2 January 2023
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, SUDHANSHU DHULIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 84; CrPC Section 329, 313; Evidence Act Section 106, 105; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 201 and s.84 - Murder - Disappearance of evidence - Circumstantial evidence - Appreciation of - Plea of mental incapacity - Tenability - Allegations against appellant that, he took his two sons, aged about 9 years and canal, strangulated them to death, and threw their dead bodies into the canal - Trial court held appellant guilty u/ss.302 and 201 IPC and sentenced him to life imprisonment - High Court upheld the conviction and sentence - Held: There is no infirmity in the findings concurrently
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