Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 299 · Decided 10 April 2024
Ravishankar Tandon v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 299 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 558
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3869/2023
- Decided
- 10 April 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 120B; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
In a case based on circumstantial evidence wherein the appellants- accused persons were convicted u/s.302 r/w s.34, ss.120B and 201, s.302 r/w ss.34 and 120B, IPC and sentenced to imprisonment for life, whether the prosecution was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that dead body of the deceased from the pond was on the basis of the information given by the appellants in the statement recorded u/s.27, Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act, 1872 - s.27 - Prosecution relied on the memorandum of the appellants-accused u/s.27 and the subsequent
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