Supreme Court of India

Leela Ram (d) through Duli Chand v. State of Haryana and Anr.

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Reported as [1999] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 435

Bench K.T. Thomas J.

Decided 6 October 1999

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Indian Penal Code, 1860-S.302-Murder---Eye-witnesses-Apprecia- tion of evidence--Conviction and sentence by Trial Court-On appeal, High Court. acquitting the accused holding that there were discrepancies in the evidence of eye-witnesses regarding number of shots fired by 'accused:-Validity of-Held, minor embellishment and trivial discrepancies do not render the. evidence of eye-witnesses un-believable-Whether there was one shot or two shots was immaterial in assessing the culpability of the accused-High Court not justified in acquitting the accused relying upon minor contradictions be- tween

Where later benches applied it

2025 Goverdhan & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh relied on
2020 Manoj Suryavanshi v. State of Chhattisgarh relied on
2014 State of Karnataka v. Smt. Suvarnamma & Anr. relied on
2013 Mritunjoy Biswas v. Pranab @ Kuti Biswas and Another relied on
2013 Lal Bahadur & Ors. v. State (nct of Delhi) relied on
2012 Kathi Bharat Vajsur & Anr. v. State of Gujarat relied on
2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh referred to
2023 Vahitha v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2022 Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2021 Achhar Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2020 Duleshwar & Anr. v. The State of M.P. (now Chhattisgarh) referred to

Of those, 6 relied on · 5 referred to

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