Supreme Court of India

State of Punjab v. Jagir Singh and Ors.

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Reported as [1974] 1 S.C.R. 328
Bench Hans Raj Khanna J.
Decided 6 August 1973

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Criminal practice and procedure-Appreciation of evidence and sentence. The respondents were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The High Court acquitted them in appeal. In appeal to this Court, setting aside the acquittal, HELD : ( 1) criminal trial is not like a fairy tale :wherein one is free to give flight to one's imagination and phantasy. It concerns itself with the question as to whether the accused arraigned at the trial is guilty of the crime with which he is charged. Crime is an event i_n real life and is the product of interplay of different human emotions. In_ arriving at

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