Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 251 · Decided 2 March 2020
Shri Satish Kumar & ANR. v. The State of Himachal Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 251 · [2020] 3 S.C.R. 1144
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 19/2017
- Decided
- 2 March 2020
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA, HEMANT GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 389; Arms Act Section 25, 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.34 - Prosecution case was that the informant was the daughter of the victim-deceased - As per her statement, the deceased had left in the morning on the fateful day to meet one 'K' to join duty - When he did not return home till 6 pm she called him but his phone was switched off - Next morning, she called the Forest Guard who told her that the deceased had not come to duty - Thereafter she called accused-S whose house was near her house and sought number of
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