Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1093 · Decided 14 October 2022
State Through the Inspector of Police v. Laly @ Manikandan & Another Etc
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1093 · [2022] 15 S.C.R. 633
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1750/2022
- Decided
- 14 October 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code - ss. 302 & 34 - Conviction on the basis of the deposition of the sole eye witness - The respondents-three accused were tried for having committed the murder of victim-deceased - The respondents were held guilty of the offences u/s 302 r/w. 34 of IPC by the the High Court did not find the testimony of PW1 credible and acquitted the accused - On appeal, held: PW1 was the eye witness to the occurrence at both places i.e. the first part was at the time when the victim, PW1 and one another were travelling in the car, where A1 caused injury on the
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