Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 134 · Decided 2 May 1972
Sohrab S/O Beli Nayata & ANR. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 134 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 472
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 240/1969
- Decided
- 2 May 1972
- Bench
- G.K. MITTER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 417, 418, 423; Arms Act
Headnote
Practice and Procedure-Power of High Cour~ in appeal against .acauittal. In an app1~al against acquittal, the High Court, while maintaining the . acquittal of some of the accused, reversed it in respect of the appel­ lants and comcicted them of offences under s. 302 read with s. 34, I. P. C. the High Court has ·full power to review at large the evidence upon which an order of acquittal was .founded and to reach the conclusion that upon the evidence the order of acquittal should be t>oversed. But in exercising this power A B c the High Cou'rt should give proper weight
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