Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1016 · Decided 5 September 2008
Ravi v. State REP. BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1016 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 114
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 22/2007
- Decided
- 5 September 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
- Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Conviction under - Based c on evidence of solitary witness - Justification of - Held: Justified since evidence of solitary witness was clear and cogent ·- Evidence - Solitary witness. Criminal trial: Murder - Identification of accused - Plea that identification as there was not sufficient D light at the place of occurrence - Held: Not tenable - Eye- witness categorically stated that there was light in the nearby church and the street lights near Primary School were burning at the time of occurrence and he could see the occurrence in that light- Courts
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