Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1019 · Decided 5 September 2008
Shivaji @ Dadya Shankar Alhat v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1019 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 81
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1409/2008
- Decided
- 5 September 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376(2)(5), 366; CrPC Section 366
Headnote
81 SHIVAJI @ DADYA SHANKAR ALHAT A II. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA (Criminal Appeal No.1409 of 2008) SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 B (DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT AND DR. MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA, JJ.) Penal Code, 1860; Ss.302 and 376 (2)(5): Rape and murder of a minor girl - Conviction - Death c sentence - Correctness of - accused towards hill side - Her dead body was recovered from hill side - Evidence D of relative prosecution witnesses corroborated by evidence of independent prosecution witnesses - Circumstantial evidence though not direct to the point in issue, but consists of facts so closely associated with
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