Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 75 · Decided 5 April 1973
Ram Narain v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 75 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 911
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 6/1970
- Decided
- 5 April 1973
- Bench
- I.D. DUA, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 511, 384, 363, 468, 368; Evidence Act Section 45, 47, 73
Headnote
F G H RAM NARAIN v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH April 5, 1973 [K. K. MATHEW AND I. D. DuA, JJ,] Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 45-Han_dwriting Expert-Sole testi­ mony for conviction--Courts below comparing handwriting for theniselves and c.greeing with Expert-No illegality in based <>.ti the conclusion that the two anonymous letters dema:nding ransom for the kidn•pped boy had been written by him. The appellant having categori­ cally denied his authorship of those letters a handwriting expert was produced in support of t~ prosecution case, and
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