Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 364, 365, 380, 395, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 27 -- Murder - Disclosure statement - Recovery of dead body of deceased - No confessional statement of A-3 was recorded u/s 27 of the Act with regard to recovery of dead body - Prosecution thus, failed to prove the circumstance that dead body of deceased was recovered at the instance..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 364, 365, 380, 395, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 27 -- Murder - Disclosure statement - Recovery of spade at the instance of A-1 - Recovery effected from a place which was already known and not exclusively within knowledge of A-1 - Recovery is not reliable - Accused acquitted...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 346, 364, 201, 34, Arms Act, 1959, Section 25 -- Second bail application - Murder - Accused is in long judicial custody - Out of 36 PWs, only 3 witnesses have been examined so far - Conclusion of trial is likely to take a long time - Bail application allowed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 396, 364, 147, 149, 120B -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Failure of accused in a case based on circumstantial evidence which included last seen together theory to explain u/s 313 Cr.P.C as to under what circumstances victim suffered death, would not be a ground to arrive at an irresistible conclusion that accused were involved in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 396, 364, 147, 149, 120B -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - In a case based on circumstantial evidence if entire chain is duly proved by cogent evidence, conviction could be recorded even if corpus is not found - But when dead body of deceased was discovered from place shown by accused, it is imperative on part of prosecution to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 396, 364, 147, 149, 120B, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Extra judicial confession - Accused made extra judicial confession through an inland letter addressed to PW19 - However, prosecution has not examined handwriting expert for proving handwritings of accused contained in inland letter allegedly..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 396, 364, 147, 149, 120B -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Identification of accused - When there was huge time gap of about more than six months between date of incident and date of recording of statements of witnesses by I.O, Test Identification Parade (TIP) would have assisted police in identifying accused seen by PW7 - However,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 396, 364, 147, 149, 120B -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Identification of dead body - Corpus found after almost 5 months from the date of incident and was in a highly decomposed condition - Identification was done by getting skull super imposition test done through forensic expert - However, since super imposition report was not..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 364, 366, 376, 307 -- Summoning of additional accused - Kidnapping, rape and attempt to murder - Incident took place in the Hotel - CCTV footage of Hotel indicates that no other person visited hotel except main accused - Evidence recorded during course of prosecution if remain unrebutted, will not..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 389, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 364, 120B -- Suspension of sentence during pendency of appeal - Appeal against conviction- Kidnapping for ransom - Accused already undergone 3 years, 5 months and 27 days of sentence out of 8 years - Left leg of accused is amputated - It would entail lot of difficulty as such to accused if he is..........
