Supreme Court of India

Kamlesh Prabhudas Tanna & Another v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2013] 9 S.C.R. 257

Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 26 August 2013

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly Criminal Revision initiated suo motu by the High Court also stood dismissed.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973: Appeal - High Court affirming the conviction - Held: It is c the sacrosanct duty of appellate court, while sitting in appeal against judgment of trial court, to be satisfied that the guilt of accused has been established beyond all reasonable doubt -- Appreciation of evidence and proper re-assessment to arrive: at the conclusion is imperative in a criminal appeal - In the instant case, High Court, while dealing with the statutory ' appeal has failed to appreciate and scrutinize the evidence in proper perspective, and the reasons ascribed by it for accepting

Authorities it was built on

1996 Bani Singh and Others v. State of U.P. cited by 10
1999 Padam Singh v. State of U.P. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2015 Md.all @ Guddu v. State of U.P. relied on

Of those, 1 relied on

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