Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1249 · Decided 5 November 2008
State of Maharashtra v. Arjun
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1249 · [2008] 15 S.C.R. 495
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1155/2004
- Decided
- 5 November 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 201134, 34
Headnote
A ,B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302134 and 201134 - Prosecution under, of two accused - Conviction of both by trial court on 1 C the basis of circumstantial evidence - High Court convicting A-1 while acquitting A-2 - Appeal against acquittal - Held: Circumstances relied on not sufficient to fasten the prosecuted u/ss. 302/ 10 34 and 201/34 IPC alongwith Accused No. 1 for having caused death of a person. Prosecution case was that the , deceased was objecting to the illicit relationship between the accused persons. The case was based on circumstantial evidence. Trial court convicted both the '
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