Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 217 · Decided 26 February 2016
Sadhu Saran Singh v. State of U.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 217 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 913
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1467/2005
- Decided
- 26 February 2016
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 504
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.147, 148, 149, 302, 307 and 504 - Prosecution under - Death of three persons and injury of eye-witness A B - Caused by five accused - Trial court convicted all the accused C and sentenced three of the accused to life imprisonment and two of the accused to death sentence for acquitted all the accused of all the charges - On appeal, held: The reasons given by High Court acquitting the accused are flimsy, untenable and bordering on perverse appreciation of evidence - Prosecution case was fully supported by the ocular evidence of two eye-witnesses - Non-examination
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