Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 34 -- Murder - Injured witness/PW2 gave statement contrary to FIR - Testimony of injured witness is not reliable - PW2 did not know the name of father of deceased but in FIR name of father of deceased was written which was result of handiwork of police - No explanation as to why dead body of deceased reached from Najibabad to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376A, 302, 404 -- Rape and murder - Modification of sentence - Accused is 38 years old, having undergone 8 years of imprisonment and he has two minor children and a wife to look after and there is no other person in the family to look after three of them - However, considering diabolic and depraved manner in which accused took victim to a..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304(Part I) -- Nature of offence - Accused had tried to commit suicide herself along with two children by consuming poison - Case of accused not covered u/s 300 Exceptions IPC, particularly, when there was no consent from two children who were fed and died upon consuming pesticide administered by accused - Accused rightly convicted u/s..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Murder - Two dying declarations - Contradictions in two dying declarations with regard to presence of relatives - Magistrate did not specifically ask deceased about her condition in her Dying declaration recorded by him - Both the children of deceased were present at the time of incident but none..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 498A, 201, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Motive of crime not proved - Prosecution has heavily relied upon the deposition of witness who was under the influence of first informant - Merely because certain witnesses have stated in their deposition that they had seen some persons loitering around the place where dead body of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Double murder case - Last seen evidence - Prosecution has established that deceased and accused left the house of PW5 together and soon thereafter death of deceased had occurred - Burden to show as to what happened after leaving house would shift on accused in view of S.106 of Evidence Act - However, accused have utterly failed..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Double murder case - Death sentence - Accused persons have no criminal antecedents - They have not acted in a brutal manner, inasmuch as there is only single injury inflicted on both the deceased - Case cannot be considered to be rarest of rare case - Capital sentence commuted to life imprisonment...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Murder - Demand of dowry - Circumstantial evidence - Version of FIR is different version which was taken by informant and his son - PWs gave contradictory statements - Recovery of articles was a sham recovery - Motive of crime not established - Prosecution failed to prove its case..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Murder - Oral dying declaration - PW6 stated that deceased came to police camp in injured condition and told them accused persons assaulted him - However, PW7 stated that victim had only named accused `B' - Police officers are disinterested witnesses - However, their version with regard to the..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 364A, 302, 201, 420, 468, 471, 120B -- Kidnapping for ransom - Murder - Modification of sentence - Accused kidnapped 18 years old boy and sought ransom in exchange - They strangulated the kidnapped boy, burnt his body to eliminate evidence and disposed of body in a nala - Sole motive of crime seems to have been greed - There was..........
