Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 788 · Decided 17 October 2024
Vishwajeet Kerba Masalkar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 788 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 753
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 213/2020
- Decided
- 17 October 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 201; CrPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellant and the death sentence awarded for the alleged murders of his wife, daughter and mother were justified. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 307 and 201 - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Case of appellant informed about a robbery at his house and the murder of his wife, daughter and mother and the injuries caused to his neighbour-PW-12 - Later, he was arrested on the basis of suspicion of committing the said murders as it was revealed during investigation that he had an
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