Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 477 · Decided 27 April 2007
Ravi@ Ravichandran v. State REP. BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 477 · [2007] 5 S.C.R. 766
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 636/2007
- Decided
- 27 April 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 147, 148, 149; Evidence Act Section 9
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-s. 302-Murder-Prosecution for-Publication of ' the names and photographs of the accused and co-accused in daily newspaper c as being responsible for the incident-Names of assailants not mentioned in FIR-Test Identification Parade ten days after the publication of held: the accused was entitled for benefit of doubt, in absence of his proper identification-A conviction can be arrived at even in absence of Test Identification Parade, but the same cannot be D based on vague identification-Evidence Act, 1872-s.9-Test Identification Parade. Appellant-accused
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