Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 540 · Decided 16 April 2009
State of U. P. v. Mangal Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 540 · [2009] 6 S.C.R. 388
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 334/2002
- Decided
- 16 April 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149
Headnote
>- Penal Code, 1860.- ss. 302 rlw 149 and 148 - Three c members of a family done to death - Death caused due to gun-shot injuries - At the relevant time, deceased and PW1 were travelling in a bullock-cart - Trial Court convicted the accused-respondents - Conviction set aside by High Court on of PWs did not inspire D confidence -: Justification of - Held: On facts, justified - From _, ..._ evidence of PWs, it is clear that they could not have witnessed the occurrence as claimed and they also changed the place of occurrence and the manner in which the alleged occurrence took place -
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