Supreme Court of India

State of U.P. v. Sunil

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Reported as [2017] 3 S.C.R. 815
Bench Pinaki Chandra Ghose and R. F. Nariman JJ.
Decided 2 May 2017

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the prosecution has miserably failed to connect the occurrence with respondent herein.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.34 - Prosecution case was that complainants brother-in-law and respondent committed murder c of her father, mother and two sisters - Confessional statement leading to recovery of knife, blood stained clothes and o"ther articles from brother-in-law - Involvement of respondent unearthed on the basis of such confessional statement - Accused-brother-in-law died during the trial - Prosecution case was not only corroborated .by medical evidence but also confirmed by FSL report which proved presence of human blood on weapon of murder and clothes of both · the accused -

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