Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 34 -- Murder - Non-explanation of injuries on persons of accused, creates a doubt as to whether prosecution has brought on record real genesis of incident - Such non-explanation, however is a factor which is to be taken into account in judging veracity of PWs and Court has to scrutinize evidence with care...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 34, 100 -- Murder - Right of private defence - Incident took place in front of house of appellant when PW2/injured eye witness was returning from Talab after washing his body - As appellants saw accused `D' being assaulted, they in exercise of their right of private defence assaulted PW2 and all others who intervened - Therefore,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 34 -- Murder - Non-explanation of injuries on persons of accused - Accused had received injuries on their body but no cross FIR was lodged by them - They got themselves medically examined after five days of incident - However, all the injured accused were medically examined by Government Doctor - Said injury reports were neither..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 328, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Allegation that accused persons administered poisonous laddus to children - However, no one has seen accused having given poison in their presence or mixing poison with laddus that they have given to children - Alleged eye witness PW7 turned hostile - Chemical examination report indicate..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 120B -- Murder - Criminal conspiracy - Accused has been roped in commission of offence with aid of S.120-B IPC - However, same has not been proved by leading any cogent evidence - Most important witnesses `P' in whose house conspiracy is alleged to have been hatched is not a prosecution witness - There is no other independent witness..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Motive - Evidence on record shows that there was some misunderstanding between deceased and accused at one point of time, however, same does not establish the motive for committing the murder of deceased by accused - Acquittal upheld...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 118 -- Murder - Child witness - Court straightaway administered oath to minor witness without recording satisfaction that minor was competent to depose - This raises a question mark on his testimony especially when a minor witness can be easily tutored - Moreover, contradictions were found in testimony of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 313 -- Murder of four members of family - Dying declarations - Evidence of PW11 about dying declarations made by deceased persons has not been put to accused in his examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C - Even the fact that dying declarations were made by deceased to PW11 was..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder of four members of family - Testimony of PW3 - PW3 stated that deceased `A' told PW1 in hospital that accused and co-accused poured kerosene oil and set her and her daughters on fire - In the cross-examination, PW3 admitted that he gave a statement to I.O. according to whatever PW1 told him - When he was confronted with his..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder of four members of family - Non-explanation of injuries suffered by co-accused - Accused and co-accused were standing outside the room and were not allowing anybody to enter the room after pouring kerosene oil on victims - However, co-accused is himself a victim of fire - There is no explanation offered by prosecution as to..........
