Supreme Court of India

Ramesh Krishna Madhusudan Nayar v. The State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2008] 1 S.C.R. 150
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasayat and Aftab Alam JJ.
Decided 7 January 2008

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Penal Code, 1860: ss. 300, exception 4, 304 (Part /) and 302 - Murder or Culpable Homicide not amounting to murder c - Quarrel between parties over a trivial issue - Fatal blows by wooden Jog on head of deceased - Convicti.on u/s. 302 by courts below on basis of sole testimony of eye witness -On appeal held: Conviction can be based on testimony.of single witness if he is wholly reliable - In facts and circumstances of the case, conviction altered to s. 304 (Part I) - Custodia/ sentence altered to ten years - Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 134. s.300, Exception 4 - Applicability of - Explained. ~ s.

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