Supreme Court of India

Bhaskarrao & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2018] 4 S.C.R. 751

Bench N. V. Ramana and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.

Decided 26 April 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the trial Court had dealt with the case in a fool-pr oof manner by drawing out 11 important circumstances and delivered a well reasoned judgment thereby acquitting the accused, with which the High C ourt ought not to have interfered.

Judgment, page 28

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 147, 148, 452 r/w s. 149, s.302/149 and s.506 – Prosecution under – For murder of a person – by 16 accused – Tr ial Court acquitted all the accused – High Court reversed the acquittal ord er – On appeal, held: Evidence of witnesses were not c onsistent – There were lot of improvement in the statement of witne sses – There were contradictory statements as regards the number of accused persons involved – All the witnesses were related – Material independent witnesses were not examined – Prosecutio n failed to prove motive – Panch witnesses as well as medical evidenc e did

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
2008 State of U.P. v. Kishanpal & Ors cited by 23
2010 Bipin Kumar Mondal v. State of West Bengal cited by 16
2007 Namdeo v. State of Maharashtra cited by 9
2007 Ujjagar Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 6
1953 Dalip Singh and Others v. State of Punjab. cited by 5
2016 Nankaunoo v. State of U.P. cited by 3
1963 Darya Singh and Others v. State of Punjab cited by 3
1996 Hari Shanker Etc v. State of U.P. Etc. cited by 3
2016 Mahavir Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 Talari Naresh v. The State of Telangana relied on
2023 Ravasaheb @ Ravasahebgouda Etc. v. State of Karnataka referred to
2022 Jai Prakash Tiwari v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2022 Rajesh Yadav & Anr v. State of U.P. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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