Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Appeal against order of acquittal |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. ss. 378 and 386-Appeal against order of acquittal-Interference by appellate court-Jurisdiction of-No interference unless approach of trial court vitiated by some manifest illegality.The appellants were tried by the Court of Sessions on charges under section 302 IPC read with section 34 IPC and section 323 IPC read with section 34 IPC, and the Sessions Judge acquitted the appellants of all the charges laid against them on the grounds: (i) that there was no proper explanation for the inordinate delay in reporting the crime to the police; (ii) that there was also no adequate proof of any motive; (iii) that it was not a pre-planned attack; and (iv) that the testimony of P. W. 2 and P. W. 6 who were examined as eye-witnesses to prove the occurrence, could not be safely accepted and acted upon as true. In the absence of any independent corroboration of the testimony given by them, since they had also been appearing as prosecution witnesses in a large number of police cases. The High Court, however, in appeal by the respondent-State made an independent reappraisal of the evidence and set aside the acquittal, merely on the ground that as a result of such reappreciation it was inclined to reach a conclusion different from the one recorded by the Sessions Judge. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice V. Balakrishna Eradi |
Neutral Citation | 1987 INSC 91 |
Petitioner | Tota Singh & Anr. |
Respondent | State Of Punjab |
SCR | [1987] 2 S.C.R. 747 |
Judgement Date | 1987-04-01 |
Case Number | 225 |
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