Supreme Court of India
State of Goa v. Sanjay Thakran and Anr.
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Constitution of India-Article I 36-Penal Code, I 860- Sections I 20- , 364, 302 and 392-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973--Section 313-Accused charged of criminal conspiracy, abduction, murder and robbery on basis of circumstantial evidence-Accused last seen with deceased together-Recovery of articles of deceased with accused-Tira! Court and High Court acquitting""'•,, the acccused-Correctness of-Held, court in appeal can set aside the order of acquittal only when the decision is perverse-On examination of evidence, there was a considerable time gap between the persons last seen together and the
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- 2009 Dhanapal v. State by Public Prosecutor, Madras
- 2009 Mahtab Singh & Anr. v. State of U.P.
- 2008 State of Andhra Pradesh v. M. Madhusudhan Rao
- 2008 Ghurey Lal v. State of U.P.
- 2008 Narayanamurthy v. State of Karnataka and Anr.
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- 2007 Keshav v. State of Maharashtra
- 2007 Hatti Singh v. State of Haryana
- 2017 Anjan Kumar Sarma & Ors. v. State of Assam
Of those, 8 relied on · 1 distinguished · 5 referred to · 18 mentioned
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