Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 322 · Decided 1 August 2002
Pritam Nath and ORS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 322 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 397
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 216/2002
- Decided
- 1 August 2002
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, SHIVARAJ V. PATIL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 304, 34; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code: Sections 302134 and 304-Part II. Criminal Trial: Murder Case-Accused acquitted on benefit of doubt-Reversal thereof by the High Court-Power of High Court-Scope and ambit of-Held, High Court could not upset an order of acquittal as if it is another trial Court to record conviction, when when material D contradictions, omissions and improvements were found in the evidence of prosecution witnesses and in the absence of corroboration of such evidence by independent witness, it cannot be relied on-Evidence Act, 1872. According to the prosecution, PW2 took the deceased, his
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