Supreme Court of India
Hargovandas Devrajbhai Patel and Ors. v. The State of Gujarat
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What the Court ordered
In the result the appeal is allowed and the judgment of the High Court in Criminal Appeal No.765of1983 on its file is set aside.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Penql Code, 1860: Sections 201, 302134, 304 Part II read with Section 114-Murder-lnterrogation of stranger in police station-Severely beaten up-Became unconscious-Taken in police jeep-Subsequently highly decomposed body recovered from Jungle-Body identified by the relatives Trial Court acquitted the accused Police Officers giving benefit of doubt High Court convicted and sentenced them-On appeal, held, several links in the chain of circumstances missing-Prosecution failed to prove that the accused committed murder-Several discrepancies and unexplained factors 0 causing doubt on the
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