Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 26 · Decided 2 February 1979
State of U.P. v. Ashok Kumar & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 26 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 166/1976
- Decided
- 2 February 1979
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A.D. KOSHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
• • -·. , . STATE OF U.P. v. ASHOK KUMAR & ANOTHER February 2, 1979 [S. MVRTAZA FAZAL ALI AND A. D. KosHAL JJ.] 1 Penal Code-s. 302-Supreme Court-When would' interfere with order of acquittal in special leave-Witnesses claimed they identified the assailant from a distance of 'night) the deceased and the prosecution witnesses attended a drama in the Ramlila Grounds of the village and when the deceased, after taking two 1amosas and tea, was returning home some time past midnight, the respondents shot him dead and that this was seen by them from a distance of 150
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