Supreme Court of India

Promode Dey v. State of West Bengal

Neutral citation
Reported as [2012] 3 S.C.R. 887
Bench A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar JJ.
Decided 22 March 2012
Status Distinguished

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

1 Supreme Court bench has cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder- Child witness PW2 - Conviction by trial court - Upheld by High Court - Justification - Held: PW2 gave a very natural account of the c incident - Right from the time of the incident till the time she was examined in court, PW2 consistently said that accused­ appellant had killed her mother with a 'daa' - It cannot, therefore, be held that PW2 was tutored to depose against the appellant - Evidence of PW2 also corroborated by the fact that a blood-stained 'daa' was recovered on the very date of the incident from a jungle by the side of the house of the

Authorities it was built on

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 distinguished

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.