Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 537 · Decided 9 May 2007
Santosh @ Santukrao v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 537 · [2007] 6 S.C.R. 199
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 704/2007
- Decided
- 9 May 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307
Headnote
B > Penal Code, I fJ60; Ss. 302 and 307: \ Assault and murder-Accused attacking deceased with a sharp edged c weapon causing his death and injuring PW I-Trial Court found him guilty of offences u/ss. 302 and 307 IPC and sentencing him to undergo imprisonment for life-Affirmed by High Court-On to be f;tal to entire prosecution case particularly when ocular evidence is corroborated by the medical evidence-When prosecution case is proved by D direct evidence, motive takes a back seat-However, in the facts and -c circumstances of the case, it cannot be said that the motive has not
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