Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 104 · Decided 15 March 1999
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Jeet Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 104 · [1999] 1 S.C.R. 1033
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 263/1991
- Decided
- 15 March 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.S.M. QUADRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 45, 27
Headnote
B Criminal Law : Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 45-Death-Suicidal or homicidal-Medical evidence suggested C cause of death as smothering--Chemical Examiner's report suggested death due to poisoning also-Injuries on both legs of deceased suggested homicidal smothering-Held, under these circumstances a place, which was "open and accessible to others"-Admissibility of-lt is not whether the place is accessible to others or not but whether it was ordinarily visible to others-/[ it is not, then it is immaterial that the concealed place is accessible to others-Discovery off act is not
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