Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Indian Penal Code Murder |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872) Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Indian Penal Code, 1860 - Sections 302 & 34 -Murder Common intention - Proof of - No fire arm used by accused K and no active role assigned to him - Role assigned to him is merely exhortion - Murder not pre-determined or planned - Emotion developed on the spot - Exhortion words used by accused was of weakest nature and the last one - Was subsequent to strong abusing and threatening language used by other two accused because of which common intention had already matured - Words used by accused can mean both kill or beat - Exhortion attributed to accused cannot lead to conclusion that it was with same intention to kill deceased - Held, accused 'K' is entitled to benefit of doubt. Evidence Act, 1872 - Section 45 - Fire Arm injury - Blackening of skin below the injury does not necessarily lead to the inference that firing was from a close range - Oval shaped injury - Direction of pellets being downwards and travelling right to left corroborating prosecution evidence of firing from roof top which was on the right side of place of occurrence - Medical Evidence fully corroborated by unimpeachable evidence of eye witnesses - Held, mere reference in medical report of blackening under surface of injuries cannot lead to an inference that firing was from close range. Medical Evidence at variance with Direct Evidence - Mere variance of prosecution story with medical evidence not to lead to outright dismissal of prosecution case - Duty of court to remove chaff from grain. Criminal Trial - Identification of accused - Insufficiency of light - Moonlit night, lantern burning and accused persons and eye witnesses closely related - Held, their appearance and voice being known, the identification cannot be doubted for paucity of light. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 - Section 154 - First Information Report - Lack of details about the part played by each accused persons in the commission of crime - FIR lodged by chowkidar at instance of deceased's father who happened to be eye-witness - Deceased's father being in remorseful mood could not give details except to request the chowkidar to lodge a report - Held, absence of details in the FIR was of no consequence. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Prakash Misra |
Neutral Citation | 1999 INSC 27 |
Petitioner | Mohan Singh And Anr. |
Respondent | State Of M.p. |
SCR | [1999] 1 S.C.R. 276 |
Judgement Date | 1999-01-28 |
Case Number | 551 |
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