Supreme Court · 1985 INSC 174 · Decided 13 August 1985
State of Uttar Pradesh v. Lalloo & OTHERS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1985 INSC 174 · [1985] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 543
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 320/1977
- Decided
- 13 August 1985
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A. VARADARAJAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 144, 145; Evidence Act Section 3, 114; Constitution
Headnote
STATE OF ll1TAR PRADESH v. LALLOO & OTHERS. AUGUST 13, 1985 [S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI AND A. VARADARAJAN, JJ ·] A. Murder trial - Evidence of eye witnesses, appreciation of - Probability of their presence at the scerie of occurrence of the crime - Section 3 of the Evidence Act. B. First Procedure (Act II of 1974), .1973 read with Section 114 of the Evidence Act. c. Conviction and sentence - Where two view~ leading to the guilt of the accused, on the evidence available on record are not possible, conviction is justified - Even in case of gruesome and cold-blooded orurder long
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