Supreme Court of India

Promode Dey v. State of West Bengal

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Bench A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar JJ.
Decided 22 March 2012
Status Distinguished

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Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder- Child witness PW2 - Conviction by trial court - Upheld by High Court - Justification - Held: PW2 gave a very natural account of the c incident - Right from the time of the incident till the time she was examined in court, PW2 consistently said that accused­ appellant had killed her mother with a 'daa' - It cannot, therefore, be held that PW2 was tutored to depose against the appellant - Evidence of PW2 also corroborated by the fact that a blood-stained 'daa' was recovered on the very date of the incident from a jungle by the side of the house of the…

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