Supreme Court of India

State of Madhya Pradesh. v. Nisar

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Reported as [2007] 7 S.C.R. 926
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasa Yat and D.K. Jain JJ.
Decided 4 June 2007

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Penal Code, 1860: Section 302-Double murder-Circumstantial evidence-Accused convicted on the basis of his extra-judicial confession and recovery of dead body and weapon of murder at his instance-Blood group on blood found on axe not ascertained-FIR recorded much after extra-judicial confession not mentioning anything about it-Held : High Court rightly set aside conviction recorded by trial court-Evidence-Circumstantial evidence. Respondent was prosecuted for double murder. The prosecution case was that two graziers, 'K' and ' ' did not reach home in the evening. he­ goat was also missing. The

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