Supreme Court of India

Israr v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 695

Bench Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.

Decided 6 December 2004

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From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 : Section 304 read with section 34-Conviction under, on basis of testimony of witnesses-Order upheld by High Court-Justification , of-Held: Evidence of witnesses being a close relative and consequently being a partisan witnesses cannot be discarded-Falsity of particular material witness does not throw the prosecution case-Further, the evidence describes that the accused had common intention to cause death of deceased-Also light facilitate identification of accused and the dying declaration does not suffer from any infirmity-Hence, conviction justified Evidence Act,

Authorities it was built on

1957 Vadivelu Thevar v. The State of Madras cited by 67
1981 Barendra Prasad Ray & Ors. v. The Income-tax Officer 'a' Ward Foreign Section and Ors. cited by 14

Where later benches applied it

2013 Nagappan v. State by Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu relied on
2011 Prahalad Patel v. State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2012 Raju @ Balachandran & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2011 Waman & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to

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