Supreme Court of India

Daulat Ram @ Daulti v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2015] 2 S.C.R. 1001
Bench Dipak Misra and Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 17 March 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the chain of circumstances brought on record is not complete to prove charge of offences punishable G under Sections 302 and 201 IPC against appellant Daulat Ram @ Daulti, as such, the conviction and sentence recorded by the courts below against him is liable to be set aside.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.34 and s.201 - Conviction by courts below based on circumstantial evidence - Deceased brutally murdered and his dead body thrown in dry well - Evidence of prosecution witnesses were not found to be trustworthy - Motive or previous 0 enmity of the appellant-accused with the deceased was a/so not proved - Chain of circumstances wa$ not complete to prove charge of offences ulss.302 and 201 against the appellant - Conviction liable to be set aside. Allowing the appeal, the court HELD: 1. PW-1, father of the deceased supported the prosecution case that the dead body

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