Supreme Court of India

State of U.p v. Nawab Singh (dead) and Ors.

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 52
Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and S.B. Sinha JJ.
Decided 3 February 2004

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Penal Code, 1860: Section 300-Murder-Acquittal-Appeal against-Accused persons came to the house of deceased and fired shots at him which resulted in his death-Post-mortem report showed that deceased died of gunshot '"injuries"­ Trial court convicted accused persons-However, High Court set aside the conviction on the mistaken belief that deceased suffered only one gunshot injury-Correctness of-Held: The medical report showed '"injuries" meaning thereby more than one injury-The High Court acquitted the accused persons without analysing the evidence on record-Hence, judgment of High Court

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