Supreme Court of India

Ravi Mandal v. State of Uttarakhand

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Bench Hrishikesh Roy and Manoj Misra JJ.
Decided 18 May 2023

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We are of the considered view that the case in hand is a quintessential case where to solve out a 25 RAVI MANDAL v.

Judgment, page 24

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Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302, 34 and 201 – Arms Act, 1959 – ss. 4 and 25 – Acquittal under – FIR lodged by PW-1 (father of deceased) after founding dead body of his son at 0730 hours on 01.11.2001 in a forest, alleging that deceased was with ‘R’ and ‘ ’ on 31.10.2001 at about 2100 hours – Later, he replaced ‘ ’ with ‘S’ in written information – Both accused (R and S) were convicted by the Trial Court u/s.302 r/w. s.34, s.201 of IPC and ss. 4/25 of the Arms Act – Trial Court relied on testimonies of PW-2 and PW-5 to conclude that deceased was last seen alive in the company of the accused persons…

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