Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 193 · Decided 22 March 2013
Umesh Singh v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 193 · [2013] 4 S.C.R. 797
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 43/2010
- Decided
- 22 March 2013
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 rlw s. 34 - Murder - Deceased was shot at with revolver and rifle - Several accused - C Conviction of accused-appellant - Justification - Held: Justified - Statement of related eye-witness (PW2) was rightly treated as FIR - Evidence of PW2 supported by other witnesses that he was falsely implicated not tenable - His conviction based on legal D evidence on record and on proper appreciation of the same - Arms Act - s. 27. Evidence - Rigor mortis - Time of death - Opinion of doctor regarding complete vanishing of rigor mortis from the E dead body after 36
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