Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 787 · Decided 22 July 2019
Sanjay Rajak v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 787 · [2019] 9 S.C.R. 654
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1070/2017
- Decided
- 22 July 2019
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364(A)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.364(A) - Conviction and rigourous imprisonment for life - Acquittal of co-accused by High Court - Prosecution case was that the co-accused kidnapped 6 years old child - In confessional statement, both the accused disclosed that after kidnapping the the corpse in the bed of river - Both the accused were last seen together along with the victim - Police made no effort to make recovery of body - Trial court convicted both the accused on circumstantial evidence - High Court affirmed the conviction of appellant while
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