Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, 201, 120B -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Recoveries made at the instance of accused would have some corroborative value only when prosecution could have proved and established chain of circumstances i.e motive and last seen which are not proved - There is complete lack of evidence on prior meeting of mind of accused or of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 106 -- Murder of two minor children by father - Burden of proof - Dead bodies of deceased were found from canal and they were subjected to manual strangulation which resulted into their death - Deceased were lastly in the company of their father/accused alone - Three independent witnesses stated that..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Murder - Three dying declarations - No material contradiction or infirmity in written dying declaration and two oral dying declarations - Incident took place in the house of deceased when he was alone thus corroboration was not possible - Dying declaration not outcome of any tutoring, prompting or..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 302, 449, 201 -- Rape - Murder of victim and her son - Circumstantial evidence - Motive - Allegation that accused committed rape of his sister-in-law and in order to avoid any disclosure of offence by victim he committed murder of his sister-in-law and her son - Dead bodies of both the deceased were thrown in dam which were recovered..........
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..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, 506(2) -- Murder - Material contradictions between all PWs - Not a single witness affirmed the manner in which whole incident took place - Even, the presence of eye witnesses on the spot is doubtful - Motive of crime not proved - No substantial evidence connecting accused to offences in question - Prosecution miserably failed to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 324, 34 -- Nature of offence - Intention to commit murder was of PW2 and not to the injured as per statements of PW1 and PW2 - Testimony of PW1 and PW2 shows that there was no motive for accused who have committed the crime - Presence of accused is admitted at the place of occurrence - However, there is nothing on record to show that..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 120B, 201, 118 -- Discharge - Murder - Complainant in complaint has not named accused as perpetrator of offence rather she stated that she suspects foul play - I.O has not brought even prima facie material in charge sheet as to what was the motive on the part of accused to commit alleged..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Eye witness of incident who filed complaint has not stated about involvement of accused in particular - Overt act against each person is not mentioned but same is improved in his evidence as PW1 - It is not clear as to who has beaten deceased with stick and on which part of body of deceased causing grievous hurt leading..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Deceased has been attacked by accused in broad daylight and there is direct evidence available to prove the same - Motive behind the attack is also apparent considering there was previous enmity between accused and PW1 - Prosecution discharged its duties in proving guilt of accused for offence of murder - Conviction upheld...........
