Supreme Court of India

Joginder Singh v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2013] 11 S.C.R. 446

Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 24 October 2013

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid analysis, the appeal is allowed, the judgment passed by the High Court is set aside and that G of the learned trial Judge is restored.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 307 r/w. s. 34 - Arms Act, 1959 - ss. 25 and 27 - Prosecution under - Of three · accused including appellant-accused - Acquittal of all the accused by trial court giving them benefit of doubt - High Court convicted the appellant-accused while maintaining the acquittal order in respect of other accused - Held: The High Court has unsettled the reasonable findings of trial court in a o cryptic manner - Trial court has rightly acquitted the accused in view of the material contradiction in oral evidence and ballistic report, non-examination of material witnesses

Authorities it was built on

2007 State of Goa v. Sanjay Thakran and Anr. cited by 32
1990 Hiraji Tolaji Bagwan v. Shakuntala cited by 30
1978 Ganesh Bhavan Patel & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra cited by 8
2001 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Gian Chand cited by 8
2009 Mahendra Pratap Singh v. State of U.P. cited by 7
2004 Ram Bali v. State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 5
2009 Rathinam @ Rathinan v. State of Tamil Nadu and Anr. cited by 4
2011 State of Rajasthan Th. Secy.home Dept. v. Abdul Mannan & Anr. cited by 4
1988 Awadhesh & Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 2
1994 Ram Kumar v. The State of Haryana cited by 2
2008 Puran Singh v. State of Uttaranchal cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2017 Vijendra Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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