Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1363 · Decided 13 December 2019
Shailendra Rajdev Pasvan and Others v. State of Gujarat ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1363 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 270
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 333/2017
- Decided
- 13 December 2019
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, SANJIV KHANNA, KRISHNA MURARI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120; Arms Act Section 21(1)(a)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.120-B, 302, 363, 364, 364-A, 365 - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Approach of the Courts - Case of the prosecution that on 4th Feb. 2001, as per routine, the complainant-PW-1 left for work at 8:00 am pm for lunch, when he noticed that his son aged about 9 years was missing - PW-1 pointed out that initially appellant-accused no.1 joined the search but thereafter suddenly vanished - Upon returning, allegedly, he made an extra-judicial confession confessing that he kidnapped
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