Supreme Court of India

Gurmej Singh and Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [1991] 2 S.C.R. 966
Bench A.M. Ahmadi, V. Ramaswami and M. Fathima C Beevi JJ.
Decided 16 July 1991

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons we see no merit in this appeal and dismiss the same.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code-Section 302 read with Section 34--Con­ viction based on the evidence of close relatives being interested testi­ mony-Whether valid. Non-examination of one of the eye-witnesses-Effect of. The appellants and the deceased Harnam Singh, were neighbours and had strained relations on account of passage of sullage water and elections. According to the prosecution, they had quarrelled over the passage of sullage water a few months before the incident; the appel­ lants had diverted their sullage water towards the house of the deceased and the latter had protested and frustrated their

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