Supreme Court of India

Prakash v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2013] 2 S.C.R. 458
Bench P. Sathasivam and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 22 March 2013

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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

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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