Penal Code, 1860, Section 302,34,377 -- Evidence Act, 1872, Section 118 - Murder Reference - Murder - Sodomy - Testimony of Child Witness - Quantum of sentence - Death sentence - Prosecution case that appellants-accused firstly committed sodomy and then they allowed the victims to die by way of drowning - Victims aged 9 years and 8 years respectively - Prosecution story..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3 - - Evidence of eye-witness consistent and compatible with each other clearly implicating accused person - One of eye-witnesses received injury in incident - Held, evidence of eye-witnesses cannot be brushed aside merely on ground that they were interested witnesses, being related to deceased...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 - - Eight accused persons armed with deadly weapons attacked unarmed members of victim family who were sleeping in open at midnight - Investigation conducted by investigating agency found faulty - Held, because of faulty investigation, no benefit can accrue to perpetrators of ghastly crime and they cannot be allowed to go scot-free...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Deceased allegedly killed by her father and step mother in national park - Evidence of worker working in park that he saw three of them going to forest, heard cry after some time and saw accused returning without girl thereafter, not credible as his place of work was surrounded by fence and brushes, making it difficult to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 323, 341, 147, 148, 149 -- Conviction - Appeal against - Out of five accused, one pregnant lady, other invalid, third a juvenile and fourth an old lady - Trial Court discarding theory of common object - No witness deposing correctly about weapons possessed by accused persons - Part of beating resulting in death took place inside..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Death sentence - Murder of three members of family by domestic servant and attempt to murder wife of his master - Death sentence - Held, it is rare of rarest case - Death penalty needs no interference...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307 -- Domestic servant - Murder of three members of family and attempt to murder wife of his master - Photographs, evidence of PW1 (the injured wife) & PW 4 and medical evidence proving the crime - Corroborated by subsequent absconding - Motive being dismissal from service for frustrated robbery and unreliable conduct - Held,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149 -- Appellants armed with deadly weapons assaulted deceased at a tea stall - Wife of deceased, tea stall owner and a customer were eye witnesses - Tea stall owner and customer turned hostile - Conviction based on testimony of wife - Deceased was convicted for murder of brother of A3 to A5 and was on bail - Two aspects admitted by..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149, 148, 147 -- Forming unlawful assembly and causing murder - Incident seen by wife and son of deceased - Son turning hostile - Evidence of wife believed - It cannot be said that she was not at the site of incident - Her statement to police after two days and later evidence corroborated by medical evidence - Order of conviction..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Trial Court disbelieved eye witnesses in absence of motive - High Court reversed the order of acquittal as eye witnesses of the occurrence consistently supported prosecution - Held, this is not a case of possible two views - Held, view taken by High Court calls for no interference...........
