Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 10 · Decided 15 January 1973
State of U.P. v. Paras Nath Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 10 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 313
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 49/1971
- Decided
- 15 January 1973
- Bench
- C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, I.D. DUA, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 307; CrPC Section 540, 479A
Headnote
F G H STATE OF U.P. v. PARAS NATH SINGH & ORS. January 15, 1973 313 [A. ALAGIRISWAMI, I. D. DUA AND C~ A. VAIDIALINGAM, JJ.J Crirninal k;Jw-Practice and procedure-Eye witn··esses f.elativeS' of deceased-No intrinsic infirmity in their evidence----.Jf corroboration. necessary for I.P.C. Four of them were sentenced to death and two to Imprisonment for life on the grounds that one was a 'budding lawyer' and the other was IS years old. The son and daughter of .the dec,eased were examined as eye witnesses to .the .occur­ rence. Four penons, who were cited as
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