Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 507 · Decided 16 October 2001
Subhash Chand v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 507 · [2001] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 163
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 230/1999
- Decided
- 16 October 2001
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, R.C. LAHOTI, ASHOK BHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 302, 376(2)(f); CrPC Section 313
Headnote
B · Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Section 313-Scope and ambit of-Held: ls to afford the accused per­ sonally an opportunity of explaining any incriminating circumstance so ap­ pearing in evidence-The accused may or may not avail of such an opportunity. Criminal Trial : 'Last together at a point of time in close proximity with the time and date of commission of crime. Semen and hood-Presence of-On the clothes of accused-Evidentiary value of-Held: Not by themselves an incriminating piece of evidence con­ necting the accused with the crime in question-Penal Code,
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