Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 444 · Decided 13 September 2001
Sukhdev Yadav and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 444 · [2001] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 91
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 482/2000
- Decided
- 13 September 2001
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, N. SANTOSH HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 3, 155
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 3: Evidence-Appreciation of-Accused alleged to have fired at the deceased-Testimony of witnesses-Minor discrepan.:ies-Trial Court convicted the accused-High Court upheld conviction-On appeal, held if evidence in its entirety trustworthy, d:vergence in evidence cannot not vitiate the trial. Appellants were convicted under section 302 of the Penal Code 1860 and were awarded life imprisonment. The prosecution case was that on the fateful day when informant and his son were on their way back to the village, the son reached the house of one 'M' and was surrounded
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