Supreme Court of India

State of Rajasthan v. Daud Khan

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Reported as [2015] 13 S.C.R. 1131

Decided 4 November 2015

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From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860- s.304 (Part I) -Arms Act, 1959- ss. 3 and 25 - Prosecution for causing death of one person - c Conviction u/s.302 IPC and uls.3 rlw s.25 of Arms Act-High Court converted the conviction u/s. 302 to one u/s.304 (Part/)- Cross appeals by the State as well as the accused Held: There was no delay in lodging the FIR- Delay in receipt of special report by the Magistrate is not fatal to prosecution case - Eye-witnesses to the incident were reliable and trustworthy- On collective consideration of facts of the case, prosecution case cannot be doubled - Order of High Court upheld -

Authorities it was built on

2010 Abdul Sayeed v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 21
2010 Brahm Swaroop & Anr. v. State of U.P. cited by 11
2014 Ashok Debbarma @ Achak Debbarma v. State of Tripura cited by 10
1972 Thulia Kali v. The State of Tamil Nadu cited by 7
1998 George and Others v. State of Kearla and Anr. cited by 5
2002 Dana Yadav @ Dahu & Ors. v. State of Bihar cited by 5
1970 Jadunath Singh & Anr. v. State of U.P. cited by 2
2013 Sheo Shankar Singh v. State of U.P. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2022 Chotkau v. State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2023 Ravasaheb @ Ravasahebgouda Etc. v. State of Karnataka referred to
2020 Rajesh @ Sarkari & Anr v. State of Haryana referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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