Supreme Court of India

Vijay Shankar v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2015] 9 S.C.R. 977
Bench V. Gopala Gowda J.
Decided 4 August 2015

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the judgment of the High Court is set aside and this appeal is allowed.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss.302 and 449 - Conviction and life imprisonment based on circumstantial evidence - c Prosecution case was that on fateful night, PW-10 and his victim brother had assembled at their farm house to celebrate holi festival and continued talking till 2 . M. and thereafter PW-10 returned back to his village - Deposition of PW-10 that around 10 PM. appellant-accused had come to the farm under influence of liquor and abused the victim-deceased for not allowing him to park his cycle and take liquor at his farm - Next morning, PW-19 saw the victim-deceased in injured condition -

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