Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 771 · Decided 30 August 2018
The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raja ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 771 · [2018] 11 S.C.R. 23
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 396/2015
- Decided
- 30 August 2018
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 r/w s.34 - Gun shot - Murder of victim-deceased and injuries to his brother - Conviction by trial court on evidence of eye-witness who was victim's lawyer-brother- PW1 - High Court set aside conviction doubting the presence of PW1 at the Held: PW-1 being a lawyer having good practice and also a member of the Nagar Palika giving audience to the public in the morning, the High Court rightly doubted his presence at the place of occurrence at 9.30 a.m. on the day of incident - High Court also doubted the evidence of PW-1 as to
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