Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 148 · Decided 4 February 2022
Rajesh Yadav & Anr v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 148 · [2022] 16 S.C.R. 967
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 339/2014
- Decided
- 4 February 2022
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, M.M. SUNDRESH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307; CrPC Section 173; Evidence Act Section 3, 33; Arms Act Section 25
Headnote
Penal Code 1860: ss. 302, 307 - Two persons were done to death by bullet firing by the accused - Previous dispute between the groups - Two eye-witness present on the spot - Recoveries made from all the accused - Trial court convicted and sentenced all the accused them for the offence charged u/s.307, with the confirmation of conviction and sentence u/s. 25 of the Arms Act - On appeal, held: PWs-1 & 2 have not contradicted between themselves being the eye-witnesses - Merely because they are related witnesses, in the absence of any
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