Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 144 · Decided 22 March 2012
Promode Dey v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 144 · [2012] 3 S.C.R. 887
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 405/2008
- Decided
- 22 March 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder- Child witness PW2 A B - Conviction by trial court - Upheld by High Court - Justification - Held: PW2 gave a very natural account of the c incident - Right from the time of the incident till the time she was examined in court, PW2 consistently said that - It cannot, therefore, be held that PW2 was tutored to depose against the appellant - Evidence of PW2 also corroborated by the fact D that a blood-stained 'daa' was recovered on the very date of the incident from a jungle by the side of the house of the appellant - Medical evidence of PW10 (the
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