Supreme Court of India

Dhal Singh Dewangan v. State of Chhattisgarh

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Reported as [2016] 8 S.C.R. 36
Bench Ranjan Gogoi, Prafulla C. Pant and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 23 September 2016

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the prosecution, on the basis of admissible evidence on record, has not proved its case against the appellant.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s . .J02 - Conviction and death sentence by courts below for causing death of wife and 5 daughters - Prosecution case that on the fateful night, complaint lodged that sound of shouting heard ji-om the house of the appellant - When police reached his house, PW-6, mother of the appellant informed that she saw appellant attacking his wife and five daughters with a sharp edged object - Bodies of the deceased found in a room and appellallf lying in one corner of the same room in an unconscious state with iron knife lying near his hand -Appellant sent to hospital - Before the

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