Supreme Court of India

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Bench G.T. Nanavati and V.N. Khare JJ.
Decided 5 March 1998

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court was not right in setting aside the acquittal of the appellant and convicting him under Section 302 IPC. We, therefore, allow this appeal.

Judgment, page 2

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T NANAVATI, J. The appellant is challenging in this appeal his conviction by the High Court under Section 302 IPC. He was tried alongwith his brother Jalal for committing the murder of their cousin- Ummer in the Sessions Case No. 100/86 in the Court of Sessions Judge, Trivendrum but was acquitted on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove its case. In order to prove its case, the prosecution had examined PW 2 - Surenderan Nair who stated that he was accompanying the deceased when the incident took place and that he had seen the assault made on the deceased by…

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