Supreme Court · 1985 INSC 89 · Decided 16 April 1985
State of Gujarat v. Raghunath Vamanrao Baxi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1985 INSC 89 · [1985] 3 S.C.R. 733
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 180/1976
- Decided
- 16 April 1985
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 5(2); Constitution Article 136; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
Evidence-A.ppreciaaon of oral evidence of different witnesses, explained­ Where the oral evielence supported by circumstantial evidence lead 011/y to one possible view of guilt and no two views were reasonably possible, the accused must be held guilty of the offence charged-Trap witnesses, that t/Je offence was committed long back or that the accused retired from service will he of no avail. The Respondent was an Income Tax omccr. He was tried aad cocvic .. ted of the offences under section 161 Indian PeDal Code read and sectioa 5(2) read with section 5(1) (d) of the Prevention or
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