Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 889 · Decided 26 September 2018
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Chhaakki Lal and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 889 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 184
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 21/2011
- Decided
- 26 September 2018
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 27, 134
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Appeal against acquittal - Case of the prosecution that accused no.1 and 2 shot dead PW-1's daughter and three other relatives while they were going along with PW-1 towards the fields to cut crop - Trial court held the accused - High Court acquitted the accused persons - On appeal, held: It is the case where four people were murdered in broad day light - One of the deceased, PW-1's grandson was a child of three years - High Court did not appreciate the evidence of PW-1, the sole eye
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