Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 455 · Decided 5 September 2003
Surinder Singh and ANR. v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 455 · [2003] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 401
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 896/1996
- Decided
- 5 September 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; CrPC Section 378; Juvenile Justice Act
Headnote
Criminal Trial-Evidence-Witnesses-Relatives of deceased examined as witnesses-Credibility of-Such witnesses need not necessarily be unreliable-Indian Penal Code-Section 302 Criminal Trial-Evidence-Non-examination of some independent witnesses not coming forward to depose-Effect of-Prosecution Trial-Site Plan-Preparation of-Admissibility as D evidence-Prepared on hearsay and therefore not admissible-Position of eye-witness not reflected in site plan-Held, this is not fatal to the case of the prosecution-Indian Penal Code-Section 302. Criminal Trial-Medical Evidence-Variance with
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