Supreme Court · [1959] 1 S.C.R. 1219 · Decided 2 September 1958
Ram Prakash v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [1959] 1 S.C.R. 1219
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 77/1958
- Decided
- 2 September 1958
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM, K.N. WANCHOO (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 30
Headnote
S.C.R. • SUPREME COURT REPORTS t RAM PRAKASH • 1219 v. September 2. THE STATE OF PUNJAB (B. P. ~INHA, JAFER IMAM and K. N. WANOHOO JJ.) Criminal Law-Evidence-Retracted confession of co-acc1<sed­ Evidentiary value-Necessity of corroboration-Indian Evidence Act, I872 (I of I872), s. took advantage of the deceased being alone in the house with her child, went upstairs and killed her and stole her ornaments, while P remained downstairs with the child. The evidence upon which the prosecution relied for conviction con­ sisted of the confession of P, the statement of
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