Supreme Court of India

Matru Alias Girish Chandra v. State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [1971] 3 S.C.R. 914

Bench P. Jaganmohan Reddy and I. D. Dua JJ.

Decided 3 March 1971

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Circumstanticl evidence-Weight of. Thi' appellant and two others were charged with the offences of murder of a woman and her three year old son by brutally staobing them, and theft of cash and ornaments from the house of the deceased. The offences were alleged to have been committed between 10 and 11 a.m. About six months prior to the occur'rence there was a quarrel between the deceased and the wife of the appellant who was the next door neigh: bour during which the decease\! received an injury. The deceased wrote about this incident to her father. On the day of the occurrence when the

Where later benches applied it

2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. relied on
2013 Mritunjoy Biswas v. Pranab @ Kuti Biswas and Another relied on
2025 Chetan v. The State of Karnataka referred to
2025 Daljit Singh v. State of Haryana & Anr. referred to
2023 Santosh @ Bhure v. State (g.n.c.t.) of Delhi referred to
2022 Gireesan Nair & Ors. Etc. v. State of Kerala referred to
2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2020 Rajesh @ Sarkari & Anr v. State of Haryana referred to
2015 Kulwinder Singh &anr. v. State of Punjab referred to
2015 Amrutlal Liladharbhai Kotak & Ors. v. State of Gujarat mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 7 referred to · 1 mentioned

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