Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 58 · Decided 4 February 1998
Sheikh Abdul Hamid and Another v. State of Madhypradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 58 · [1998] 1 S.C.R. 546
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1190/1997
- Decided
- 4 February 1998
- Bench
- G.T. NANAVATI, V.N. KHARE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34; CrPC Section 1io, 354; Evidence Act Section 5
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302134-Murder of wife and children-Circumstantial evidence-Body exhumed from inner room of Dhaba-Not accessible to outsiders-Trial Court convicted the appeilants C and sentenced them to death-Conviction upf,2ld by High Court and sentence confirmed-On appeal, the links of chain of circumstances are unbroken and complete-Conviction justified Indian Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 5-Murder-Conviction based on D circumstantial evidence-,--Validity of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: Sec1ion 354(3)-Death sentence-No evidence to show how the .murder has taken
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