Supreme Court of India

Banti @ Guddu v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 119
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.
Decided 4 November 2003

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Penal Code, 1860-Section J02-Murder-Prosecution for-Incident seen by eye-witnesses-One of the eye-witnesses resiled from original statement and examined as defence witness-False implication pleaded-Conviction by Trial Court and High Court-On appeal, held: Conviction justified-Guilt of the accused proved beyond reasonable doubt. Criminal Trial : Delayed examination of witnesses-Affect on prosecution case-Held: It is not rule of universal application that in case of such delay, prosecution case becomes suspect. Non-examination of certain persons as prosecution witnesses-Affect of on prosecution

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