Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1204 · Decided 5 November 2019
Rohtas & ANR. v. The State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1204 · [2019] 16 S.C.R. 861
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 764/2009
- Decided
- 5 November 2019
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art.136 - Special leave petition - Re- appreciation of evidence by Supreme Court - Permissibility - Held: Supreme Court, while entertaining an appeal by way of special leave under Art.136, ordinarily, will not attempt to re-appreciate the evidence on High Court is shown to have committed a manifest error of law or procedure or the conclusion reached by the courts below is, on the face of it, perverse - Merely because another view on the same evidence is possible, that cannot be the basis to interfere with the finding of fact recorded by
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