Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | 1860: s.302- Murder- Conviction ulss.302 and 379 Penal Code |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Penal Code, 1860: s.302- Murder- Conviction u/ss. 302 and 379 - Allegation that accused committed murder of child by drowning her in a pond and thereafter removed silver chain from her person - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Circumstances were disclosure statement, extra- judicial confession, recovery of silver chain from the accused and that accused was last seen with the victim - On appeal, held: Prosecution failed to prove the case of murder and theft of silver chain against the accused - The body of the victim was found floating in the pond a day after she went missing -In such case, it could be seen by anybody, therefore, pointing out the corpus delicti by the accused was not of much significance - The exact words of the accused were not uttered by any of the witnesses - Therefore, the so called extra-judicial confession was of no consequence - There was no detail in seizure memo regarding the place from where silver chain was seized nor the chain was identified by the father of the victim - This would put the seizure into extreme suspicion -Moreover, there was no proximity between the time when the victim and the accused were last seen together and the time of the death of the victim - Considering the short distance between the house of the victim and the pond, possibility of accidental drowning not ruled out - Accused was stated to be a frock wearing mohamedan girl on the relevant date and it was not shown as to how such a small girl could have drowned been victim - Sessions judge should have used its discretion and sent the accused for medical examination to ascertain her exact age, which he failed to do - High Court did not advert to this aspect - Conviction by courts below set aside. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice V.S. Sirpurkar |
Neutral Citation | 2011 INSC 343 |
Petitioner | Roopsena Khatun |
Respondent | State Of West Bengal |
SCR | [2011] 5 S.C.R. 982 |
Judgement Date | 2011-04-28 |
Case Number | 1370 |
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