Supreme Court of India

Dinesh Kumar v. The State of Haryana

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Bench Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi JJ.
Decided 12 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

In the above terms, the Appeal is partly allowed.

Judgment, 33

In brief

Hari Om, a taxi driver, was hired on the morning of 10th August 1998 at the Bhiwani taxi stand by the appellant Dinesh Kumar and two others, Manoj and Mukesh, for a trip to Sonepat; his brother PW-13, who knew all three accused, saw him leave with them and he never returned. On 13th August 1998 a highly decomposed male body was found in a sugarcane field near the Yamuna bandh, identified the next day by PW-13 and the car owner PW-18 from clothing and remaining features; the post-mortem doctor could ascertain no bony injury and no precise cause of death.…

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