Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 211 · Decided 13 May 1994
SH. Mani Ram and ORS. v. The State of Uitar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 211 · [1994] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 63
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 238/1993
- Decided
- 13 May 1994
- Bench
- R.M. SAHAI, FAIZAN UDDIN, B.L. HANSARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, I860: SectionsI47, 148, 149 and 302. Murder-l'rosecutio!t-Examination of interested witness-Withhold­ ing of independent witnesses--Conviction based on solitary interested wit­ ness-Held invalid. Indian Evidence Ac~ 1872 : c MurdeJ-Evidence of prosecution not only evidence but also D entire prosecution case. In a murder trial the brother of the deceased deposed that on the date of occurrence when he along with bis brother was returning to his village after marketing the appellants armed with pistols and lathls, emerged from a sugarcane field
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