Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 657 · Decided 8 May 2025
Renuka Prasad v. The State Represented BY Assistant Superintendent of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 657 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 160
- Case number
- No. 3189/2023
- Decided
- 8 May 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, K. VINOD CHANDRAN
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161, 162; Evidence Act Section 25, 26
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in reversing the acquittal and convicting the accused persons based on the testimony of the IOs which was founded only on s.161, CrPC statements of the witnesses; whether present was a case of two probable views, one favourable to the accused ought to be taken. Appeal against acquittal - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.161 - Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w s.120B - Murder - 71 out of the total 87 witnesses including eye-witnesses turned hostile
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