Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 105 · Decided 15 February 2013
Sanaullah Khan v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 105 · [2013] 1 S.C.R. 1079
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 94/2011
- Decided
- 15 February 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 31
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 302 and 201 - Triple murder - Circumstantial c evidence - Conviction and sentence of death awarded by trial court confirmed by High Court - Held: Chain of circumstances proved by prosecution establishes beyond reasonable· doubt that it was the appellant who had u/s 302 for each of the three 0 offences of murder is upheld - However, as regards the sentence, motive for crime was not established - Further, though deceased persons appear to have been brutally killed, what exactly happened leading to their murder by appellant is not known - There is no
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