Supreme Court of India

Jitender Kumar v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2012] 4 S.C.R. 408

Bench A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar JJ.

Decided 8 May 2012

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What the Court ordered

In View of the above medical references, the view expressed in Modi's book (supra) and the principles stated in the judgments of this Court, it can safely be predicated that F determination of the time of death solely with reference to the stomach contents is not a very certain and determinative factor.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: c ss. 120-8 and 302134 IPC- Murder- Victim strangulated to death by father-in-law, brother-in-law and others - Evidence of the brother and the husband of the victim - Disclosure statement of one of the accused - Out of 5 accused, 4 convicted and sentenced by trial court ulss 120-8 and 3021 0 · 34 and the fifth convicted u/s 1208 an.d also sentenced to imprisonment for life - Held: The prosecution has been able to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt by ocular, documentary and medical evidence - The judgment of the High Court under appeal does not call for any

Authorities it was built on

2006 Aloke Nath Dutta and Ors. v. State of West Bengal cited by 16
1966 Vithal Das v. Rupchand & Ors. cited by 9
2010 State of U.P. v. Krishna Master & Ors. cited by 7
2004 Anter Singh v. State of Rajasthan cited by 7
2000 State of Rajasthan v. N.K. - the Accused cited by 7
2010 Ranjit Singh and Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 6
2010 Shaikh Sattar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 6
1994 Shivappa v. State of Karnataka cited by 3
2004 Yakub Ismailbhai Patel v. State of Gujarat cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2015 Vijaypal v. State (gnct) of Delhi relied on
2013 Mritunjoy Biswas v. Pranab @ Kuti Biswas and Another relied on
2013 Kulwant Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab relied on
2022 Md. Jabbar Ali & Ors. v. The State of Assam referred to
2022 Pappu Tiwary v. State of Jharkhand referred to
2015 State of Andhra Pradesh v. P. Venkateshwarlu referred to
2015 Vutukuru Lakshmaiah v. State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2014 Ramesh v. State through Inspector of Police referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to

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