Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 385 · Decided 7 May 2024
Sukhpal Singh v. NCT of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 385 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 315
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 55/2015
- Decided
- 7 May 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 299, 106; Evidence Act Section 33, 106
Headnote
Appellant was convicted u/s.302, Penal Code, 1860 for the murder of his wife. Courts below whether justified in holding that the statement of Complainant-PW-1 recorded in proceedings u/s.299, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 could be read as a piece of substantive the links in the chain of incriminating circumstantial evidence. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.299 - Record of evidence in absence of accused - Evidence Act, 1872 - s.33 - Appellant murdered his wife owing to her suspected infidelity however, fled
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