Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 132 · Decided 6 August 1973
State of Punjab v. Jagir Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 132 · [1974] 1 S.C.R. 328
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 7/1972
- Decided
- 6 August 1973
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
PUNJAB t. JAGIR SINGH AND ORS. August 6, 1973 ~H. R. KHANNA AND A. ALAG!RISWAMI JJ.] A Criminal practice and procedure-Appreciation of evidence and sentence. B The respondents were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The High Court acquitted them in appeal. In appeal to this Court, as to whether the accused arraigned at the trial is guilty of the crime with which he is charged. Crime is an event i_n real life and is the product of interplay of different human emotions. In_ arriving at the conclusion about the guilt of the accused charged with the commission of a crime,
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