Supreme Court of India
Dana Yadav @ Dahu & Ors. v. State of Bihar
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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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Where later benches applied it
- 2015 State of Rajasthan v. Daud Khan
- 2012 Deepak @ Wireless v. State of Maharashtra
- 2017 Soyebbhai Yusufbhai Bharania & Ors. v. State of Gujarat
- 2014 Ashok Debbarma @ Achak Debbarma v. State of Tripura
- 2012 Subhash Krishnan v. State of Goa
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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