Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 388 · Decided 13 August 2003
State of Rajasthan v. Raja Ram
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 388 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 445
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 815/1996
- Decided
- 13 August 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
B Penal Code, J 860-Section 302-Murder-Trial-Circumstantial evidence-Extra-judicial confession-Witnesses to whom confession made inimically disposed towards the accused-Conviction and death sentence by C Trial Court-Acquittal by High Court-On appeal, held: Order of acquittal is justified as the An extra-judicial confession, if voluntary and true and made in a fit state of mind can be relied upon and can be the sole basis of conviction-Requirement D of corroboration is a matter of prudence and not an invariable rule of law-- It is not open to a Court to start with a presumption
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