Supreme Court of India

Khurshid Ahmed v. State of Jammu and Kashmir

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Reported as [2018] 6 S.C.R. 1121
Bench N. V. Ramana and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.
Decided 15 May 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion and a conspectus of all the material would pave way to conclude that the prosecution has pr oved the case beyond reasonable doubt and the appeal preferr ed by the accused is bereft of any substance and accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Ranbir Penal Code – s.302 – Prosecution case that there was a scuffle between the appellant-accused and ‘ ’ over some pa yment issue – Same day in evening, appellant-accused assau lted ‘ ’ on his head in presence of his father-PW-9 – ‘ ’ and PW-9 ru shed to clinic for first aid and then went to police station and lodged an oral complaint – Head injury resulted in the death of ‘ ’ – Trial Court acquitted accused – However, High Court reversed t he order of acquittal into conviction u/ss. 302/341 RPC – Appellant-acc used contended that the entire case depended on the veracity of ev idence of

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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