Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1176 · Decided 17 October 2008
Virendra @ Buddhu & ANR. v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1176 · [2008] 14 S.C.R. 706
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 509/2006
- Decided
- 17 October 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 118
Headnote
--f Penal Code, 1860; s.302 rlw s.34 and s.307: c Assault and murder - Doubting testimony of wife and daughter of deceased, eye witnesses, trial Court acquitted all the accused persons - Reversed by High Court as against the appellants relying upon evidence of PW1 and PW2, but affirming Correctness of- Held: D High Court rightly observed that PW2 was a rustic girl of ten- der age likely to be overawed by Court atmosphere and out of ..... nervousness she might have got confused and, therefore, * could not answer some questions in cross-examination - Her evidence could not be
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