Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 487 · Decided 9 July 2024
Ratnu Yadav v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 487 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 466
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1635/2018
- Decided
- 9 July 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 145
Headnote
Whether the Courts below erred in convicting appellant u/s.302, IPC for committing the murder of his stepmother by relying upon the alleged extra-judicial confession of appellant before PW1 and 'last seen together' evidence of PW5; and the guilt of the appellant Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Prosecution case that Appellant assaulted his step-mother; dragged her by holding her hair from her house up to the village pond and suffocated her to death by putting her head inside the pond water - No direct evidence -
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