Supreme Court of India

Rambilas and Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [1997] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 405
Bench M.M. Punchhi and S.P. Kurdukar JJ.
Decided 3 October 1997

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that in all probabilities it was a blind murder.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, I860-Section 302-Accused prosecuted for murder of a notorious character-Prosecution case based on evidence of four eye witnesses-Occurrence allegedly in late evening-Festival being celebrated in village where villagers dance and drink through out the night-Eye witnesses claimed having been woken up with noise of beating with sticks and went towards place of occurrence-During cross examination admitted not to have seen actual assault on deceased by appellants-Father of deceased informed and FIR lodged only next morning-Dead body discovered later at instance of

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