Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 127 · Decided 10 March 2005
Sheikh Meheboob @ Hetak and ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 127 · [2005] 2 S.C.R. 628
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 772/2004
- Decided
- 10 March 2005
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, B.N. SRIKRISHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC
Headnote
MEHEBOOB @ HET AK AND ORS. -· v. ST A TE OF MAHARASHTRA MARCH l 0, 2005 B [K.G. BALAKRISHNAN AND B.N. SRIKRISHNA, JJ.) .... Penal Code, I860-Section 302 r/w Section 34-Prosecution for murder-Incident seen by two eye-witnesses-Evidence of one eye-witness c contradictory to his own police Report made by the eyewitness-Conviction by Courts below-On appeal, held: In view of the contradictions and doubts in the prosecution case, the guilt of the accused not proved beyond reasonable doubt-Accused acquitted D giving benefit of doubt. Appellants-accused were charged u/s 302 IPC for
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