Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 978 · Decided 20 October 2016
Yogesh Singh v. Mahabeer Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 978 · [2016] 7 S.C.R. 713
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1482/2013
- Decided
- 20 October 2016
- Bench
- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 rlw s.149 - Murder - Head severed from trunk- Incident witnessed by daughter and also father of the deceased - Trial court convicted six persons - High Court acquitted the accused persons­ respondents - Appeal against acquittal by son of the deceased - Held: It was not by the alleged delay in dispatch of the FIR to the nearest Magistrate competent to take cognizance of such offence - Non-recording of certain relevant entries in the inquest report did not constitute a material defect so grave to throw out the prosecution story and the otherwise reliable
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