Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 694 · Decided 19 September 2011
Shivlal & ANR. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 694 · [2011] 11 S.C.R. 429
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 610/2007
- Decided
- 19 September 2011
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 148, 149, 302; CrPC Section 313, 157(1), 157
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B ss. 148, 302 and 3021149 - Fifteen persons accused of c murdering a co-villager - Held-Trial court recorded a finding that the wife of the deceased, claiming herself' to be the eye witness, roped in certain persons in the crime falsely and there were improvements in her trial court acquitted six accused and High Court 0 acquitted four more - . The witness on whose information 'Dehati Nalish' (not a formal FIR) was recorded, turned hostile - Courts below have not given much credence to the statement of the witness on the basis of whose statement FIR was
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