Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 471 · Decided 3 August 2010
State of U.P. v. Krishna Master & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 471 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 563
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1180/2004
- Decided
- 3 August 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34; Evidence Act
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302134 - Homicidal death of six persons - Conviction u/s. 302134 and imposition of death sentence by trial court - Acquittal by High Court - On appeal, C held: Evidence of two eye-witnesses as well a$ doctor, who conducted post mortem, that six persons died homicidal of eye witnesses, first informant, who lost his brother; and minor child, who lost five members of his family is trustworthy and D unimpeachable - Evidence does not suffer from major contradictions and/or improvements nor noticeable embellishment made - FIR was lodged promptly .:... Sufficient
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)