Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 119 · Decided 20 April 1972
Yeshwant and ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 119 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 291
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 175/1960
- Decided
- 20 April 1972
- Bench
- A.N. GROVER, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
291 Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), ss. 34, 302 and 30i-Five accused charF?ed with offences-One acquitted-Other four -convicted­ Propriety. The High Court allowed an appeal .against acquittal and convicted three of the appellants under ss. 302 and 34, 1.P.C., and the two others under ss. principles to he observed in appeals from acquittals before reappraising the evidence in the case. The High Court, however, had not examined the eviaence against each accused individually. The infirmities in the test identifica­ tion parade of one of the accused, who was said to be
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