Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1138 · Decided 13 October 2008
Ram Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1138 · [2008] 14 S.C.R. 358
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1599/2008
- Decided
- 13 October 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 452, 504
Headnote
.,?- ~ Criminal trial: ... Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 302, 452 and 504:· c Murder - Trial Court found accused persons guilty of · committing offence of murder relying on testimony of relative eye-witnesses and convicted them - Affirmed by High Court - Correctness of - Held: Relationship D credibility of a witness - In the instant case, the ground that the witness being close relative, thus, partisan witness and should not be relied upon, has no substance - Presence of PWs 2 and 3, wife and son of the deceased, at the spot is . quite natural as occurrence took place
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