Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 323, 201, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Murder - Discharge - Death of deceased was natural as per expert witness who carried out postmortem on the body of deceased - No external injuries found on the body of deceased - No material to proceed against accused in private complaint filed by father of complainant - Accused..........
Will -- Suspicious circumstances - No attesting witness of Will has been examined as per provisions of S.68 of Evidence Act - Even, thumb impressions of testator has not been got proved from any handwriting and fingerprint expert - No reason assigned in the Will that why widow of testator was deprived from bounty of deceased and even no provision for her maintenance has..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149 -- Murder of four persons of family - Testimony of PW1 - Two daughters of deceased `V' having seen assailants murdering their family members and also causing injury to one of them i.e PW1 - Injuries to PW1 have not been challenged - She fully supported prosecution case as narrated by her in her statement u/s 161 Cr.P.C - Even..........
Will -- Suspicious circumstance - Five cases of forging documents pending against attesting witness of Will, making it sufficient to believe him as an unreliable attesting witness - Moreover, defendant in whose favour Will is alleged to be executed impleaded plaintiff in another litigation based on natural succession - Will in question thus, surrounded by suspicious..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3 -- Evidence of eye witness - If testimony of an eye witness is otherwise found trustworthy and reliable, same cannot be disbelieved and rejected merely because certain insignificant, normal or natural contradictions have appeared into his testimony...........
Will -- Suspicious circumstances - Will executed in favour of daughter-in-law to the exclusion of natural heirs after four months of her marriage with son of testator - Daughter-in-law failed to satisfactorily explain as to what services could be rendered in a short span of four months for a testator to bequeath suit property - Attesting witness to Will had failed to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149, 323, 324, 201, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 3(3)(10) -- Hostile eye witness - Triple murder case - Honour killing - Unlawful assembly - Testimonies of eye witnesses - All four eye witnesses are reliable and inconsistencies and contradictions in their evidence are trivial -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149, 323, 324, 201, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 3(3)(10) -- Hostile eye witness - Triple murder case - Honour killing - Unlawful assembly - Testimonies of eye witnesses - All four eye witnesses are reliable and inconsistencies and contradictions in their evidence are trivial -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, 324, Explosive Substances Act, 1908, Section 3, 4 -- Murder and Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons - Accused hatched criminal conspiracy and committed murder of deceased by firing gun shot and blasting bomb - Informant, eye witness, resident of other village but acquainted accused during incident proving his presence by..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 120B, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3, 118 -- Murder - Chance witness - Husband being unhappy with deceased-wife hatched conspiracy with his brother and father, eventually murdering deceased - Presence of witnesses near place of occurrence was natural and their testimony of crime was cogent and consistent - Courts below erred in not..........
