Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 509 · Decided 10 September 2004
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Mast Ram
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 509 · [2004] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 269
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 267/1999
- Decided
- 10 September 2004
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, H.K. SEMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 293
Headnote
B Penal Code, I 860: Section 302-Conviction by Trial Court on the basis of the ballistic report, post mortem report and evidence of eye witnesses-High Court C acquitting the accused-On appeal held, High Court/ell into grave error of law and/acts leading to miscarriage of justice-Hence, order of purporting to be report under hand of Government scientific expert-Court to accept such document issued by officers enumerated in sub-section(4) without examining the author of the documents. According to the prosecution, accused fired at and killed the deceased. Prosecution case was based
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