Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 539 · Decided 16 April 2009
Velayuda Pulavar v. State BY Sub-Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 539 · [2009] 6 S.C.R. 383
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 595/2002
- Decided
- 16 April 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860·- ss. 302 and 201 - Illicit relation of wife of deceased and appellant - Quarrel between deceased c and appellant - Murder of deceased - Extra judicial confession of appellant before Village Administrative Officer - Conviction by courts below - Held: Justified - solely on the basis of extra judicial - 't confession if it is found to be credible and worthy of D acceptance - Corroboration of judicial confession or extra judicial confession need not be in material particulars - It can be in general - Evidence of Village Administrative Officer coupled
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