Supreme Court of India

Kadamanian @ Manikandan v. State Represented by Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2016] 4 S.C.R. 513
Bench J.S. Khehar J.
Decided 31 August 2016

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons recorded hereinabove, we find no justification whatsoever to interfere with the conviction and sentence awarded' to· the appellant, by the High Court.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 201, 302, 376 and s.404-Prosecution under - Circumstantial Evidence- Extra-judicial confession­ Recovery in consequence of confession - Two accused - Victim­ deceased went missing- Her dead body was found - Without clothes­ Mutilated face, but nose intact-Her nose pin was missing- PW-6 had seen appellant near place of occurrence-Police suspected appellant of offences- Extra-judicial confession made by appellant before village administrative officer, PW-12 - Consequent to that, nose pin recovered, which was identified by the family members of the deceased - Trial court

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