Supreme Court of India
Dinesh Kumar Kalidas Patel v. The State of Gujarat
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the Sessions Court is not justified in convicting the appellant under Section 201 of the IPC and the High Court maintaining the same.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.201 – Whether conviction under s.201 could be maintained while acquitting the accused of main offence – Held: charge under s.201 can be independently laid and conviction maintained also, in case the prosecution is able to establish that an offence had been committed, the person charged with the offence had the knowledge or the reason to believe that the offence had been committed, the said person has caused disappearance of evidence and such act of disappearance has been done with the intention of screening the offender from legal punishment – Mere suspicion is not…
Authorities it was built on
- 2007 Sukhram v. State of Maharashtra
- 1967 Suleman Rehiman Mulani & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra
- 1952 Palvinder Kaur v. Ihe State of Punjab
- 2003 Sou. Vijaya @ Baby v. State of Maharashtra
- 2007 State of Karnataka v. Madesha and Ors.
- 1953 Kalawati and Another v. The State of Himachal Pradesh
- 1999 Ram Saran Mahto and Anr. v. The State of Bihar
- 2001 V. L. Tresa v. State of Kerala
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