Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 241 · Decided 2 March 2007
State of Goa v. Sanjay Thakran and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 241 · [2007] 3 S.C.R. 507
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 873/2004
- Decided
- 2 March 2007
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 313; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
B Constitution of India-Article I 36-Penal Code, I 860- Sections I 20- B, 364, 302 and 392-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973--Section 313-Accused charged of criminal conspiracy, abduction, murder and robbery on basis of C circumstantial evidence-Accused last seen with deceased together-Recovery of of-Held, court in appeal can set aside the order of acquittal only when the decision is perverse-On examination of evidence, there was a considerable time gap between the persons last seen together and the proximate time of crime-Prosecution failed to prove that the articles D
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