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Shyamal Ghosh v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2012] 10 S.C.R. 95
Bench A.K. Patnaik J.
Decided 11 July 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that non-identification of Shyamal Ghosh by Manik Das is inconsequential in the present case.

Judgment, page 53

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 201, 379, 411 rlw. s. 34 - Prosecution under - c Of eight accused - For killing one person and disposing of the body, after cutting it, in gunny bags - Accused absconding immediately after the incident - Circumstantial evidence as well as eye-witnesses to different events - Recovery of weapon of offence and the vehicle used for carrying the 0 mutilated body - Trial court convicting all the accused and sentencing them to death - High Court affirming the conviction except uls. 379 and sentencing the accused to life imprisonment - On appeal, held: Order of High Court

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Of those, 6 relied on · 2 referred to

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