Supreme Court of India
Pattu Rajan v. The State of Tamil Nadu
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the High Court was justified in observing that a superimposition test cannot be taken as a conclusive one for the identification of a dead body, because by itself it may not conclusively establish identification.
Judgment, page 31
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Abduction and murder of husband of complainant (PW1) – Prosecution case was that accused no.1 wanted to take PW1 as his third wife knowing that she was already married to victim-deceased and made several attempts with the help of other accused to severe the relationship between PW1 and her husband – Prior to the day of incident, the deceased and PW1 were abducted by accused no.1 and his henchmen but on the same day were released for which a separate complaint was lodged by PW1 and separate trial was conducted – Subsequent to this event of abduction, accused committed murder of the PW1's husband so as to marry PW1 without any obstruction.
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra
- 1984 Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
- 2006 Trimukh Maroti Kirkan v. State of Maharashtra
- 1990 Hiraji Tolaji Bagwan v. Shakuntala
- 2001 T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala and Ors.
- 1963 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Cheemalapati Ganeswara Rao & Anr.
- 1964 Gulabchand Chhotalal Parikh v. Siate of Bombay (now Gujarat)
- 2010 Babubhai v. State of Gujarat & Ors. Etc.
- 1999 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Lekh Raj and Anr.
- 2008 Nirmal Singh Kahlon v. State of Punjab and Ors.
- 2007 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka
- 2011 Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu v. John David
- 2009 Ramesh Chandra Agrawal v. Regency Hospital Ltd. and Ors.
- 2014 Mahesh Dhanaji Shinde v. State of Maharashtra
- 2013 Rohtash Kumar v. State of Haryana
- 1999 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Jai Lal and Ors.
- 2006 Baso Prasad and Ors. v. State of Bihar
- 1978 Inder Singh & Anr. v. The State (delhi Admn.)
- 1978 State (delhi Administration) v. Pali Ram
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2023 Siju Kurian v. State of Karnataka
- 2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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