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State of Maharashtra v. Goraksha Ambaji Adsul

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Reported as [2011] 9 S.C.R. 41
Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar JJ.
Decided 7 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

Held as under: 'To sum-up the assessment of evidence of these seven vital witnesses, we may say that, PW-7 Sakharam Nabge has made himself sufficiently useless for the prosecution.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 201 - Conviction under - Continuous quarrels amongst family members over division of property - Accused no. 1, his wife (accused no.3) and c brother (accused no. 2) on one side and accused no. 1' s father, step mother and step sister on the other side - Accused ' no. 1 administered sedative/poisonous substance mixed in sweets to all family members and when they fell asleep, he strangulated father, step mother and step sister to death - Thereafter, he packed the dead bodies in two trunks and loaded in different trains, which· were later recovered from different

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Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to · 5 mentioned

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