Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1267 · Decided 1 December 2009
Sukhdeep Singh @ Deep Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1267 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 1252
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1037/2005
- Decided
- 1 December 2009
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c s. 302 - Murder - Accused firing at his rival - Causing Ji his death -Acquittal by trial court on ground that oral evidence was at variance with medical evidence and that empty cartridge recovered from scene of occurrence did not match the crime weapon Court u/s 302 - D HELD: Trial court misread the evidence - Testimony of prosecution witnesses was consistent - Medical evidence far from dislodging the prosecution case, fully supports the same ;... - Prosecution has also explained the confusion, if any, with regard to the cartridge and the
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