Supreme Court of India

Dana Yadav @ Dahu & Ors. v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 363
Bench U.C. Banerjee J.
Decided 13 September 2002

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, in our opinion, the High Court has C not committed any error in upholding convictions of appellant nos.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Criminal trial: Identification-Reliance of-Identification of accused in court for the first time after two years of occurrence without being corroborated either by test identification parade or any other evidence-Accused not named in the FIR though other co-accused were named-Accused also not named in the statement made by prosecution witnesses to police-No evidence that accused was known to witnesses-Held it would not be safe to place reliance on such identification in court unless the same is corroborated by any other evidence- Conviction set aside-Evidence Act, 1872-Sections 3 and 9-Penal

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Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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