Supreme Court of India
Prakash v. State of Rajasthan
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the prosecution has established all the circumstances by cogent and acceptable evidence and if we consider all the E circumstances it leads to a conclusion that it was the appellants/ accused who kidnapped and committed the murder of the deceased Kamlesh.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: ss. 302, 364 and 120- - Minor boy kidnapped and murdered by three accused - Circumstantial evidence - Conviction and $entence of life imprisonment - Affirmed by High Courl - Held: Cogent and acceptable evidence adduced by prosecution has established the deceased last seen with accused, recovery of incriminating articles pursuant to disclosure statements of accused, motive for the crime, i.e. enmity between complaint and accused and threat given by accused to finish the family of complainant - It leads to a conclusion that appellants/accused kidnapped and murdered the
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Where later benches applied it
- 2018 Suresh and Anr v. State of Haryana
- 2023 Shankar v. The State of Maharashtra
- 2022 Neeraj Dutta v. State (govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi)
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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