Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 281 · Decided 11 July 2012
Shyamal Ghosh v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 281 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 95
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 507/2007
- Decided
- 11 July 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 313, 162, 161
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B ss. 302, 201, 379, 411 rlw. s. 34 - Prosecution under - c Of eight accused - For killing one person and disposing of the body, after cutting it, in gunny bags - Accused absconding immediately after the incident - Circumstantial evidence as well as eye-witnesses to different and the vehicle used for carrying the 0 mutilated body - Trial court convicting all the accused and sentencing them to death - High Court affirming the conviction except uls. 379 and sentencing the accused to life imprisonment - On appeal, held: Order of High Court affirmed - The prosecution case
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