Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 953 · Decided 15 January 2015
Ratnesh Kumar Pandey v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 953 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 469
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 454/2011
- Decided
- 15 January 2015
- Bench
- F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - By the accused­ husband - Circumstantial evidence - Conviction and life C sentence by courts below - On appeal, held: The various circumstances of the case formed complete chain proving that it was the accus~d alone who could have committed the crime of number of injuries and the manner of their infliction, there is no scope to modify the D sentence - Sentence/Sentencing. Dismissing the appeal, the Court HELD: 1.1. The various circumstances of the case formed a complete chain without any break in its links and the said set of circumstances
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