Supreme Court of India

Bhiva Doulu Patil v. State of Maharashta

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Reported as [1963] 3 S.C.R. 830
Bench J.L. Kapur J.
Decided 29 August 1962

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Criminal 1'rial-Approver- Corroboration, if necessary qua each accused-Indian Evidence Act, 1872(1 of 1872), 88. 114,133 . .The appellant and R were convicted for murder on the testimony of an approver corroborated by the recovery at the instance of R of the knife with which the murder was commit­ ted and of the evidence that the appellant and R had got the knife prepared nine weeks before the murder. The appellant contended that his conviction was illegal as there was no corrobo­ ration of the testimony of the approver so far as he was concerned. Held, that the conviction of the appellant

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