Supreme Court of India

Laut Kumar Yadav @ Kuri v. State of Utiar Pradesh

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Reported as [2014] 8 S.C.R. 668

Bench A.K. Patnaik and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya JJ.

Decided 25 April 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that considering the age of the accused, the possibility of reforming him cannot be ruled out.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860- ss. 302, 376 rlw s. 511 - Murder- Attempt to rape - Victim, an 18 year old girl - Her neck cut with a sickle - Circumstantial evidence, viz. a) sniffer dog tracking evidence, b) recovery of sickle, c) recovery of clothes of accused-appellant and d) past conduct of appellant pertairiing to eve teasing of the deceased -. Conviction of appellant- Justification - Held: Justified - There was no delay in reporting the matter to the police - Merely because PW-1 was father of the deceased, his evidence could not be doubted on that count in absence of any suspicion - PW-9, produced

Authorities it was built on

1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab cited by 60
2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 54
2012 Ramnaresh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh cited by 21
2002 Bodh Raj @ Bodha and Ors. v. State of Jammu and Kashmir cited by 16
2010 Atbir v. Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi cited by 16
2004 Anter Singh v. State of Rajasthan cited by 7
1969 Abdul Rajak Murtaja Dafedar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 4
2002 Pandurang Kalu Patil and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra cited by 2
2001 Gade Lakshmi Mangraju @ Ramesh v. State of Andhra Pradesh cited by 1
2008 Dinesh Borthakur v. State of Assam cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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