Supreme Court of India

Murli and Anr. v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2009] 13 S.C.R. 378
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 18 August 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that, applying all these tests, his evidence as against two appellants, is f acceptable.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

r Penal Code, 1860: "" c s.302 r.w. s.149 - Conviction under- Accused persons came together on the spot, gave abuses to the deceased - A1 assaulted deceased with lathi on his head and A2 gave blows with sharp edged weapon - Conviction of 1 and A2 based on evidence of eye witnesses - On appeal, held: Evidence of PW1 remained unshaken - Insignificant contradictions in the statement made by this witness which ).. was recorded after 11 years, not fatal - The fact that PW2 had criminal record itself not sufficient to throw his evidence - His statement was recorded late however, no explanation was

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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