Supreme Court of India
Om Prakash and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that prosecution has proved the case against the appellants satisfactorily and beyond all reas'on- able doubt and that the conviction of the appellants for the offence under section 396 I.P.C. and the ·sentence awarded to them by the learned Sesssions Judge and confirmed by the learned Judge~ of the High Court are correct.
Judgment, page 18
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure 1973-Section 157-First InfornJOJion Report Time of despatch- Whether should be noted in it. Penal Code-Section 396-Murder and dacoity-Evidence-Appreciation of. The deceased was the Pradhan of his village. There were feuds of various kinds and political rivalries between the party of the deceased on the one hand and the accused on the other and a number of cases were pending before the Courts. The prosecution case against the accused was that on the night of the occurrence, which was a moonlit _night, the deceased was sleeping in the western room of his house while
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