Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 273 · Decided 1 May 2000
State of Maharashtra v. Damu and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 273 · [2000] 3 S.C.R. 880
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 992/1999
- Decided
- 1 May 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 164; Evidence Act Section 27, 30, 10
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : .J..- Ss. 302134, 120B and 364-Abduction and murder of infant children- c Circumstantial evidence-Confessional statement of an accused-Testimony of a child who miraculously escaped ftvm the abduction attempt-Recovery of articles-Conviction and sentence by Trial Court-On appeal, of-Held, the circumstances in the case, sufficiently l.- establish that pursuant to a criminal conspiracy, accused committed abduction D and murder of children-High Court erred in acquitting the accused persons by side-stepping each one of the circumstances established by the
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