Supreme Court of India

Bhaskarrao & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra

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Bench N.V. Ramana and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.

Decided 26 April 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove the guilt of accused beyond reasonable doubt.

Judgment, page 28

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 147, 148, 452 r/w s. 149, s.302/149 and s.506 – Prosecution under – For murder of a person – by 16 accused – Trial Court acquitted all the accused – High Court reversed the acquittal order – On appeal, held: Evidence of witnesses were not consistent – There were lot of improvement in the statement of witnesses – There were contradictory statements as regards the number of accused persons involved – All the witnesses were related – Material independent witnesses were not examined – Prosecution failed to prove motive – Panch witnesses as well as medical evidence did not…

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 89
2008 State of U.P. v. Kishanpal & Ors cited by 24
2010 Bipin Kumar Mondal v. State of West Bengal cited by 16
2007 Namdeo v. State of Maharashtra cited by 9
2007 Ujjagar Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 6
1953 Dalip Singh and Others v. State of Punjab. cited by 5
2016 Nankaunoo v. State of U.P. cited by 5
1963 Darya Singh and Others v. State of Punjab cited by 3
1996 Hari Shanker Etc v. State of U.P. Etc. cited by 3
2008 Yogi Agarwal v. M/s, Inspirnfion Clothes & U and Ors. cited by 3
2016 Mahavir Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 Talari Naresh v. The State of Telangana relied on
2023 Ravasaheb @ Ravasahebgouda Etc. v. State of Karnataka referred to
2022 Jai Prakash Tiwari v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2022 Rajesh Yadav & Anr v. State of U.P. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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