Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 91 · Decided 1 April 1987
Tota Singh & ANR. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 91 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 747
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 225/1978
- Decided
- 1 April 1987
- Bench
- A.P. SEN, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 323; CrPC Section 378, 386
Headnote
B Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. ss. 378 and 386-Appeal against order of acquittal-Interference by appellate court-Jurisdiction of­ No interference unless approach of trial court vitiated by some manifest illegality. ' The appellants were tried by the Court of Sessions on charges under section the appel· lants of all the charges laid against them on the grounds: (i) that there c was no proper explanation for the inordinate delay in reporting ttie crime to the police; (ii) that there was also no adequate proof of any D motive; (iii) that it was not a pre-planned attack;.
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