Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 69 · Decided 13 May 1983
Ramji Surjya & Another v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 69 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 268
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 429/1980
- Decided
- 13 May 1983
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34
Headnote
Supreme Court (Enlargement of Criminal Appe/Jate Jurisdiction) Act, 1970-S. 2--Accused acquitted by trial court but convicted by High Court, Corroboration of evidence of sole eye witness-When necessary. Jurisdiction 01· appellate court co-extensive with that of trial court-Appellate court by I rial Court. Appellate court to give cogent reasons/or conviction should be slow in interfering. The appellants were charged under section 302134 I.P.C. for murdering ti1e husband of P.W. 2 when he was lying on a cot inside a hut and the P. W. 2 .was sitting outside. The trial court
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