Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 614 · Decided 5 July 2023
Pritinder Singh @ Lovely v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 614 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 1033
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1635/2010
- Decided
- 5 July 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302
Headnote
Evidence - Circumstantial evidence - As per the prosecution, two days prior to the date of the incident, a dispute allegedly arose between the deceased-complainant's brother and their step mother wherein she allegedly threatened the deceased that he would not survive - Two co-accused) came in a car and took the deceased on the pretext of purchasing shoes, when the complainant was also present in the house and allegedly noticed that the step mother was carrying her 12 bore double barrel licensed gun in the car - Later, dead body of the deceased was found
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