Legal Street registered trademark

Supreme Court of India

Oma @ Omprakash and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu

Neutral citation
Reported as [2012] 13 S.C.R. 740
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 11 December 2012

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.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the prosecution, therefore, could not establish the guilt of the second accused beyond reasonable doubt.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 395, 396 and 397 - Prosecution under - Offences committed by the two appellants-accused c with the nine absconding accused - Arrest of the appellants ( 1 and A2) after 10 years in some other case - Conviction by trial court and award of death sentence - High Court upheld conviction, but altered the sentence to life imprisonment - The appeal to this Court abated against 1 due to his rJeath - Held: Prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt so far as A2 is concerned - No Tl Parade was conducted in respect of A2 and the witnesses could not properly

Authorities it was built on

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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.