Supreme Court of India

Yeshwant and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [1973] 1 S.C.R. 291
Bench A. N. Grover and M. H. Beg JJ.
Decided 20 April 1972

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we allow the appeal of Brahmanand Gokul Prasad Tiwari and acquit him of all the charges levelled against him.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), ss. 34, 302 and 30i-Five accused charF?ed with offences-One acquitted-Other four -convicted­ Propriety. The High Court allowed an appeal .against acquittal and convicted three of the appellants under ss. 302 and 34, 1.P. ., and the two others under ss. 307 and 14 J.P. . In appeal to this Court. HELD : The High Court had noticed the correct principles to he observed in appeals from acquittals before reappraising the evidence in the case. The High Court, however, had not examined the eviaence against each accused individually. The infirmities in the test

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Of those, 2 referred to

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