Supreme Court · 1985 INSC 202 · Decided 23 September 1985
State Delhi (Administration) v. Laxman Kumar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1985 INSC 202 · [1985] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 898
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 93/1984
- Decided
- 23 September 1985
- Bench
- A.P. SEN, RANGANATH MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 3, 11, 55, 114, 32(1); Constitution Article 136
Headnote
A. Murder by burning - No eye witness to testify the act of setting fire to the deceased or to the defence version of deceased's saree catching fire accidently, except the oral testi-· mony of witnesses who ran to the spot soon after hearing the cries for help by the deceased, the three the deceased before admission in the hospital, the conduct of the accused when the deceased's clothes were aflame, the alleged torture of the deceased for sometime preceding the occurrence over demands for cash and goods in kind and other circumstances on record - Circumstantial evidence
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