Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 558 · Decided 21 August 2014
Raju @ Devendra Choubey v. State of Chhatisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 558 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 1084
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 822/2012
- Decided
- 21 August 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 1208
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 rlw s. 34 - Murder with the aid of contract killers - Allegation that accused no. 1 hired C contract killers accused no. 2 to 4 to kill her daughter-in-law (deceased) as she was annoyed with the deceased on account of domestic dispute - PW-21 servant aged 13 years was below - On appeal, held: PW-21 was brought from village by accused no. 1 and o she used to take care of him, send to school anq give food and residence - No reason for him to falsely implicate accused no. 1 - The deposition of PW-21 was that accused no. 4 caught the deceased and accused no. 2
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