Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 198 · Decided 22 February 2024
Thakore Umedsing Nathusing v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 198 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 1178
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 250/2016
- Decided
- 22 February 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 392, 396, 397, 302; CrPC Section 378(1)(b); Evidence Act Section 25
Headnote
Scope of interference by High Court in an appeal challenging acquittal of the accused by the trial Court; standard of proof required to bring home charges in a case based purely on circumstantial evidence. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.378(1)(b) acquittal - Interference by High Court - Scope - Prosecution's case that the accused persons took the jeep of the victim-deceased on hire and thereafter they murdered the victim and looted the jeep - Appellants-accused were convicted and sentenced for offence
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