Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 489 · Decided 31 August 2004
Yakub Ismailbhai Patel v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 489 · [2004] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 978
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 62/2004
- Decided
- 31 August 2004
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, AR. LAKSHMANAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Evidence Act Section 23
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Section 302 read with section 34-Prosecution case that accused persons inflicted injuries on the vital part of deceased which resulted in his death-Conviction and sentence by trial court on C basis of evidence-High Court upheld the same-Justification of-Held : Prosecution case corroborated by other circumstances and evidence of other prosecution witness throwing light on the conduct of accused on the day of incident and also blood stained weapon of offence D recovered at the instance of accused-Furthermore, cumulative effect of injuries found on the dead body
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