Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 719 · Decided 12 November 2021
Sadakat Kotwar and ANR. v. The State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 719 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 332
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1316/2021
- Decided
- 12 November 2021
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 34, 323; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.307 r/w s.34 - Grievous injuries on vital parts of the body - Prosecution case was that appellant no.1 stabbed PW-7 with a dagger in her ribs and appellant no.2 stabbed PW-8 with a dagger on right side of his stomach and on left ribs - Trial for offence under s.307 r/w s.34 - High Court upheld the order of conviction - On appeal, held: There was no reason to doubt the testimony of the witnesses particularly PW7 and PW8 who were injured eye-witnesses - It was not the case of appellants-accused that the
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