Supreme Court of India

Shivlal & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh

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Reported as [2011] 11 S.C.R. 429
Bench P. Sathasivam and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.
Decided 19 September 2011

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Judgment, page 15

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PENAL CODE, 1860: ss. 148, 302 and 3021149 - Fifteen persons accused of c murdering a co-villager - Held-Trial court recorded a finding that the wife of the deceased, claiming herself' to be the eye witness, roped in certain persons in the crime falsely and there were improvements in her statement in court - Disbelieving her statement, trial court acquitted six accused and High Court 0 acquitted four more - . The witness on whose information 'Dehati Nalish' (not a formal FIR) was recorded, turned hostile - Courts below have not given much credence to the statement of the witness on the basis

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