Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 56 · Decided 20 January 2017
Raj Kumar@ Raju v. State (Nct of Delhi)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 56 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 462
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1460/2011
- Decided
- 20 January 2017
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, ASHOK BHUSHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 392, 34, 411; Evidence Act Section 114
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.34, s.411 - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Last seen theory - On the fateful afternocn, the deceased was found dead and her ornaments were missing -Appellant and other accused were present in the house of the deceased in the morning - Prosecution the same day, appellant and other accused were seen moving around in the neighbourhood looking perplexed - Appellant was apprehended after few days and ornaments belonging to deceased were recovered from him - Conviction of appellant uls.302 and 392 - Held: The circumstance that the accused
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