Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 103 · Decided 19 February 1998
Ram Kumar and ANR. ETC. v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 103 · [1998] 1 S.C.R. 1017
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 58/1988
- Decided
- 19 February 1998
- Bench
- G.T. NANAVATI, V.N. KHARE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
B '' Indian Penal Code, 186~s 302, 307 and 324 read with Section 34- Murder-Digging of khal by accused brothers-Protest by deceased and PWs-Fire shots causing death-Conviction and sentence by Trial Court c placing reliance on evidence of PW7 and PW8-Ev1dence of PW 10 discarded-Confirmation by High accused-PWs not reliable witnesses and cannot be accepted without independent corroboration-Evidence of PW 10 wrongly discarded-Accused fired shots probably in self defence after being injured-Conviction and sentence set D aside . • The appellants were prosecuted for an offence under Section
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