Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 450 · Decided 1 July 2015
State of U.P. v. Satveer & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 450 · [2015] 8 S.C.R. 306
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 623/2008
- Decided
- 1 July 2015
- Bench
- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, UDAY UMESH LALIT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.34- Conviction by trial court-High Court ordered acquittal- State's appeal against acquittal - Prosecution case was that the respondents were indulging in Tantrism and for the said purpose killed 8 years D. old boy - PW-2 saw respondents taking the boy inside the hour without the boy and going towards Chamunda Math with a thaal filled with articles of worship- Thereafter, PW-2 went along with another person inside baithak and saw the dead body of the boy in pool of E blood - The villagers caught hold of respondents and beat them up - Trial Court held
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