Supreme Court of India

Himanshu Mohan Raj v. State of U.P. and Anr.

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Reported as [2017] 2 S.C.R. 678
Bench S. A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao JJ.
Decided 7 March 2017

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court was wholly wrong in doubting the direct evidence of the three eye-witnesses on this ground.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Appeal against acquittal - Prosecution case was that the accused persons got into an altercation with the waiter of a hotel run by deceased and his brother (PW-1) - Deceased and PW-1 tried to pacify the accused persons - Upon heated arguments, one of accomplices exhorted the accused to fire the shot - Accused fired five rounds resulting in death of brother of PW-1 - Trial court convicted respondent-accused u!s.302 for murder and awarded life imprisonment - High Court set aside the conviction and acquitted the respondent - Appeal by complainant/State against

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