Supreme Court of India

Lahu Kamlakar Patil and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2012] 9 S.C.R. 1173
Bench K. S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 14 December 2012

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4 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 147, 148, 149 and 452 - Death of one person - Due to alleged assault with deadly weapons - Conviction of accused-appellants on basis of sole testimony of PW2, the alleged eye-witness - Sustainability - Held: Not sustainable - Conduct of PW2 after the alleged incident was very unnatural and not in accord with acceptable human behaviour allowing of variations - Veracity of PW2's version doubtful - Absence of clinching evidence to connect the appellants with the crime - Conviction of appellants accordingly set aside - Evidence - Witness - Unnatural conduct. Evidence -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 relied on · 1 distinguished

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