Supreme Court of India
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Mast Ram
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What the Court ordered
For the foregoing reasons, the order of the High Court is set aside and the order of the Trial Court is restored.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Penal Code, I 860: Section 302-Conviction by Trial Court on the basis of the ballistic report, post mortem report and evidence of eye witnesses-High Court acquitting the accused-On appeal held, High Court/ell into grave error of law and/acts leading to miscarriage of justice-Hence, order of High Court set aside and order of Trial Court restored. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: Section 293-Document purporting to be report under hand of Government scientific expert-Court to accept such document issued by officers enumerated in sub-section(4) without examining the author of the documents.
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel v. State of U.P.
- 2014 Dilawar Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana
- 2013 Shivasharanappa and Others v. State of Karnataka
- 2024 Navas @ Mulanavas v. State of Kerala
- 2015 Rajiv Singh v. State of Bihar & Another
Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to
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