Supreme Court of India
Lahu Kamlakar Patil and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra
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Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 147, 148, 149 and 452 - Death of one person - Due to alleged assault with deadly weapons - Conviction of accused-appellants on basis of sole testimony of PW2, the alleged eye-witness - Sustainability - Held: Not sustainable - Conduct of PW2 after the alleged incident was very unnatural and not in accord with acceptable human behaviour allowing of variations - Veracity of PW2's version doubtful - Absence of clinching evidence to connect the appellants with the crime - Conviction of appellants accordingly set aside - Evidence - Witness - Unnatural conduct.
Authorities it was built on
- 2010 Sidhartha Vashisht @ Manu Sharma v. State (nct of Delhi)
- 1991 Khujji@surendra Tiwari v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2006 Radha Mohan Singh @ Lal Saheb and Ors. v. State of U.P.
- 2002 Mohd. Khalid v. State of West Bengal
- 1975 Bhagwan Singh v. The State of Haryana
- 2007 Sarvesh Narain Shukla v. Daroga Singh & Ors.
- 2010 Rameshbhai Mohanbhai Koli & Ors. v. State of Gujarat
- 1976 Rabindra Kumar Dey v. State of Orissa
- 1996 State of U.P. v. Ramesh Prasad Misra and Anr.
- 2002 Balu Sonba Shinde v. State of Maharashtra
- 2001 Arvind Singh v. State of Bihar
- 1996 Alil Mollah and Anr. v. State of West Bengal
- 2010 Gopal Singh and Ors. v. State of M.P.
- 2009 Subbusingh v. State by Public Prosecutor
- 1996 Behari Prasad Etc. Etc. v. State of Bihar
- 2008 Ravishwar Manjhi & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand
- 2007 Raitanlal v. State of Jammu and Kashmir
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Nimai Ghosh & Ors. v. The State of Bihar (now Jharkhand)
- 2024 Vinod Jaswantray Vyas (dead) through Lrs. v. The State of Gujarat
- 2014 Dilawar Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana
- 2014 State of Rajasthan v. Chandgi Ram & Ors.
Of those, 3 relied on · 1 distinguished
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