Supreme Court of India

Rajan Rai v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 128
Bench B.N. Agrawal and A.K. Mathur JJ.
Decided 10 November 2005

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we are of the view that the High Court has not committed any error in upholding convictions of the sole appellant under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC as well as Sections 3 and 5 of the Act.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Evidence Act, 1872: Sections 40 to 44-Murder-Two separate trials arising from the same incident-Jn appeal arisingfrom one trial, High Court set aside the conviction of four accused, which decision attained finality-But in a subsequent appeal arising out of the other trial, upheld the conviction of appellant, a co-accused­ Justification of-Held, justified as case of appellant has to be decided only on basis of evidence adduced during his trial-Previous judgment of acquittal of the four other accused was wholly irrelevant in appeal arising out of trial of appellant being inadmissible under Ss.

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