Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 75 · Decided 3 February 2004
State of U.P v. Nawab Singh (Dead) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 75 · [2004] 2 S.C.R. 52
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 114/1997
- Decided
- 3 February 2004
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, S.B. SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Section 300-Murder-Acquittal-Appeal against-Accused persons C came to the house of deceased and fired shots at him which resulted in his death-Post-mortem report showed that deceased died of gunshot '"injuries"­ Trial court convicted accused persons-However, High The medical report showed '"injuries" meaning D thereby more than one injury-The High Court acquitted the accused persons without analysing the evidence on record-Hence, judgment of High Court unsustainable-Acquittal set aside. The respondents-accused persons were involved in two
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