Supreme Court of India

Umesh Singh v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2013] 4 S.C.R. 797
Bench Chandramauli Kr. Prasad and V. Gopala Gowda JJ.
Decided 22 March 2013

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons the impugned judgment and order cannot be interfered with by this Court.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 rlw s. 34 - Murder - Deceased was shot at with revolver and rifle - Several accused - Conviction of accused-appellant - Justification - Held: Justified - Statement of related eye-witness (PW2) was rightly treated as FIR - Evidence of PW2 supported by other witnesses (PW3, PW5 and PW7) - Claim of appellant that he was falsely implicated not tenable - His conviction based on legal evidence on record and on proper appreciation of the same - Arms Act - s. 27. Evidence - Rigor mortis - Time of death - Opinion of doctor regarding complete vanishing of rigor mortis from the

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