Supreme Court of India

Asar Mohammad and Ors. v. The State of U.P.

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Reported as [2018] 13 S.C.R. 248
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar and L. Nageswara Rao JJ.
Decided 24 October 2018

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the disclosure statement made by the appellants - accused (Exts.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 201 – Murder – Circumstantial evidence – Prosecution of three accused – Confessional stateme nt of one accused (appellant No.1) – Recovery of dead bodies at his insta nce – FIR lodged on the basis of missing report filed by PW7 – Conviction by trial court awarding death sentence to all the thr ee accused – High Court affirmed the conviction, but reduced the death sentence to imprisonment for life – On appeal, held: In view of the entire evidence and totality of the proved circumstances, courts be low were right in holding appellant No.1 guilty of the offences

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned

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