Supreme Court of India

Pawan Kumar v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 710

Bench B.N. Agra Wal and B.N. Srikrishna JJ.

Decided 23 July 2003

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, we are of the opinion that accused Balwinder Singh alias Binder is also entitled to be extended the C same benefit which we are granting in favour of the appellant.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860: S. 302 rlw s. 34-Conviction based on circumstantial evidence- Propriety of- taxi driver found dead in a hotel room-Two persons who had hired the taxi and were alleged to have stayed in the hotel room along with the driver were prosecuted for the offence-The prosecution relied upon circumstantial evidence that the accused hired the taxi and stayed in the hotel room with the driver for a night and left on the following day early in the morning-Later, when the room was opened the driver was found dead in the room-Trial court convicted both the accused u/s 302 rlw s. 34

Where later benches applied it

2023 Javed Shaukat Ali Qureshi v. State of Gujarat relied on
2019 Deep Narayan Chourasia v. State of Bihar relied on
2017 Md. Sajjad @ Raju @ Salim v. State of West Bengal relied on
2012 Sahadevan & Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2012 Madhu v. State of Kerala relied on
2025 S.N. Vijaylakshmi & Ors. v. State of Karnataka & Anr. referred to
2017 Charandas Swami v. State of Gujarat & Anr. referred to
2017 State of Karnataka v. Selvi J. Jayalalitha & Ors. referred to

Of those, 5 relied on · 3 referred to

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