Supreme Court of India

Sahab Singh Alias Sat Pal v. State of Haryana

Neutral citation
Bench Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva JJ.
Decided 2 September 2026

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the Trial Court erred in holding that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt and in convicting the accused.

Judgment, page 27

In brief

A six-year-old boy, Gaurav, went to a wedding in his village on the night of 11.03.2007 and did not return; his slipper was found in the post office verandah and his body was recovered from a nearby old well on the morning of 12.03.2007, with post-mortem showing death by smothering and cervical spinal injury and injuries to the anus. Slippers, a coca-cola coloured pant and an open packet of generic 'Ram Dev' namkeen were seized from the spot on 12.03.2007 and a site plan prepared that day.…

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