Supreme Court of India

Sunil Rai @ Paua & Ors. v. Union Territory, Chandigarh

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Reported as [2011] 7 S.C.R. 41
Bench Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha JJ.
Decided 4 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons we find it impossible to rely upon the evidence of PW-10 and, thus, goes the extra judicial oral confession by Sunil Rai.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s. 302134 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Extra- c judicial confession - Conviction of three accused by trial court - Affirmed by High Court - HELD: The first circumstance of deceased seen being chased by accused not established - The witness who claims that the main accused made confession to him, tried to save· one of the accused and 0 implicate another person in his place and thus, his evidence cannot be relied upon - The recovery of blood stained jacket of the main accused is of no consequence ·as his blood sample was not taken to ascertain his blood group - Theft

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