Supreme Court · 1992 INSC 43 · Decided 12 February 1992
Sakharam v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1992 INSC 43 · [1992] 1 S.C.R. 638
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 370/1980
- Decided
- 12 February 1992
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, R.M. SAHAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Section 302-Conviction 1mder-Abse11ce of motive in a case of circumstantial evidence-Relevancy of-Accused and deceased 'clrildren' defined in tire Children Act, 1960-J11ve11ile-i1111oce11ce--Presump­ C tion of-Prosecution's duty. The prosecution's case was that a fe\v days parents were attending on him: D The deceased, who was the aunt of the accused and daughter-in-law of accused's grand father came to see her ailing father-in-law. Thereafter the deceased went to her father-in-law's one room house in the village, where the accused was staying alone and stayed
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