Supreme Court · 1960 INSC 107 · Decided 6 May 1960
State of U.P. v. Deoman Upadhyaya
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1960 INSC 107 · [1961] 1 S.C.R. 14
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1/1960
- Decided
- 6 May 1960
- Bench
- S.K. DAS, J.L. KAPUR, K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.C. SHAH (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 27; Evidence Act Section 27; Constitution Article 14
Headnote
6. 14 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1961(1)] STATE OF U. P. v. DEOMAN UPADHYAYA (f;. K. DAS, J. L. KAPUR, K. SUDBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH and J. c. SHAH, JJ.) Criminal Law -Evidence-Statement made to police officer lead­ ing to discot:e.,y--SlaJ.ute making stalcmcnt admissible u:lun made by perso11 in Evidence Act, I872 (I of I872), s. 27 -Code of Criminal Procedure. I898 (Act 5 of I898), s. I62(2)­ Co11stitution of India, Art. I4. The respondent was tried for the murder o! one Sukhdei early on the morning o! June 19. 1958. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial and
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