Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 238 · Decided 7 September 1971
Rameshwar Singh v. State of Jammu & Kashmir
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 238 · [1972] 1 S.C.R. 627
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3/1971
- Decided
- 7 September 1971
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, I.D. DUA, SUBIMAL CHANDRA ROY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
E F G H RAMESHWAR SINGH v. STATE OF JAMMU & KASHMIR September 7, 1971 [J. M. SHELAT, I. D. DUA AND S. C. RoY, JJ.J 627 Crhninal Trial-Accused not known to lVitnesses-Nn identificatiott parade or description Of accused in F.l.R.-Weight of Identification in Court. Code of Criminal Procedul'e the conviction and the sentence of death. In appeal to this Court, HELD : The conviction and the sentence should be set aside. (1) The substantive evidence of a witness is his evidence in the trial court. But then the accused person is not previously known to a witness when the identification
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