Supreme Court of India

State of Himachal Pradesh v. Mast Ram

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 269
Bench B.N. Agrawal and H.K. Sema JJ.
Decided 10 September 2004

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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

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to

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