Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 136 · Decided 8 May 1970
Sheshanna Bhumanna Yadav v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 136 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 617
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 225/1969
- Decided
- 8 May 1970
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302, 454, 380, 414, 201; Evidence Act
Headnote
617 Indian Evidence Act (I of 1872). ss. 133, 114, ill. (b)-Evidence of accomplice and corroboration-Scope of. Two accused father and son were convicted of the offence of murder· ing a young boy of 15 and the offences of house-breaking and theft next day, of articles from the house of the his murder. 'Dhe evidence mainly consisted of that of the apprO\·er, fhe corroboration of the approver's evidence as against one of the accused (the son) con· sisled of the following :-(i) on the day of the occurrence, two wit· nesses saw the accused the approver and another
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