Supreme Court of India

Tama @ Tamal Mal v. Sta Te of West Bengal

Neutral citation
Reported as [2007] 9 S.C.R. 917
Bench S.B. Sinha and H.S. Bedi JJ.
Decided 11 September 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that there is no merit in this appeals.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: Section 302-Murder caused by stabbing a knife on chest of victim- Conviction-Plea that in view of failure of 1.0. to collect blood stained earth. and recover the weapon of murder, conviction was liable to be set aside­ Held, when testimonies of two eyewitnesses had been believed by trial court as also by High Court, there is no reason to differ with their findings-The fact whether blood stains collected from place of occurrence by l 0. had been sent for chemical examination or not pales into insignificance-Similarly, whether knife was recovered or not is also not of much

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