Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 415 · Decided 14 June 2011
SK. Yusuf v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 415 · [2011] 8 S.C.R. 83
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 831/2007
- Decided
- 14 June 2011
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
A '"·· B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 201 - Murder and causing disappearance of evidence of offence - Prosecution case that before committing murder, the appellant tried to C commit rape and on being resisted by the victifJ1, the appellant assaulted her on her head with spade ulss. 302 and 201 by the courts below - On appeal, held: Circumstances have not been established - Courts below D convicted the appellant on a mere superfluous approach without in depth analysis of the relevant facts - No evidence that the victim and the appellant were seen together at the
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