Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1097 · Decided 1 September 2009
Sushil Kumar v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1097 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 1082
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 670/2009
- Decided
- 1 September 2009
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, DEEPAK VERMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
¥ Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Murder - Accused allegedly '·~ murdered his wife and children and thereafter got himself ~ c admitted in hospital - Evidence of prosecution witnessesiiJ -- conformity with each other - No doubt about the credibility of witnesses - Prosecution witnesses having hence case of false implication not made out - Plea of alibi taken by accused not found to be truthful - 0 Prosecution able to establish case· against him - Death -..It sentence awarded by courts below however altered to life • impris01:iment as accused was not a habitual offender -
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