Supreme Court of India
Chanakya Dhibar (dead) v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid position, clearly the High Court was wrong G in holding the accused persons to be not guilty.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 148, 304 Part I r/w Section 149-Death caused-Assault by five accused-Witnessed by two eye-witnesses-One of them independent c witness-Conviction by trial court-Acquittal by High Court disbelieving the witnesses-On appeal, held: Acquittal not justified-High Court's judgment was based on surmises and conjectures and not on analysis of evidence-Conclusions of High Court is contrary to records of the case.…
Where later benches applied it
- 2012 Gurmail Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr.
- 2022 Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2004 State of U.p v. Nawab Singh (dead) and Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned
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