Supreme Court of India

Chanakya Dhibar (dead) v. State of West Bengal and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 1181
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.
Decided 19 December 2003

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid position, clearly the High Court was wrong G in holding the accused persons to be not guilty.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 148, 304 Part I r/w Section 149-Death caused-Assault by five accused-Witnessed by two eye-witnesses-One of them independent c witness-Conviction by trial court-Acquittal by High Court disbelieving the witnesses-On appeal, held: Acquittal not justified-High Court's judgment was based on surmises and conjectures and not on analysis of evidence-Conclusions of High Court is contrary to records of the case. Section 149-Common object-Scope of-Discussed-Section 141. 'Cornman object' and 'Common intention '-Distinction between. Criminal Trial : Chance witness-Reliability

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned

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