Supreme Court of India

Kapildeo Mandal and Ors. v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2007] 12 S.C.R. 668

Bench P.P. Naolekar J.

Decided 29 November 2007

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Penal Code, 1860: c ss.3021149, 4521148-Conviction under-Based on evidence of eye-witnesses that accused persons entered house of deceased andfired at him resulting in his death, assaulted informant with pistol on head and another with lathi-Challenge against-Held: Medical evidence completely ruled out prosecution version that injuries were caused by firearms-No pellet/bullet recovered from place of incident or from '( body of deceased--Incident took place at night-Witnesses stated that they recognised accused persons in torch-light/lantern-light-However, neither torch nor lantern seized by

Authorities it was built on

2002 Nallabothu Venkaiah v. State of A.P. cited by 4
2003 Thaman Kumar v. State of Union Territory of Chandigarh cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2014 Bastiram v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2013 Sunil Kundu and Anr. v. State of Jharkhand relied on
2012 Gajoo v. State of Uttarakhand relied on

Of those, 3 relied on

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