Supreme Court of India

Rohtas & Anr. v. The State of Haryana

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Reported as [2019] 16 S.C.R. 861
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 5 November 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we have no hesitation in upholding the view taken by the Trial Court that there was no delay in registration of the FIR in the fact situation of the present case.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Constitution of India: Art.136 – Special leave petitio n – Re- appreciation of evidence by Supreme Court – Permissibilit y – Held: Supreme Court, while entertaining an appeal by way of special leave under Art.136, ordinarily, will not attempt t o re-appreciate the evidence on record unless the decision of the T rial Court or the High Court is shown to have committed a manifest error of law or procedure or the conclusion reached by the courts below is, on the face of it, perverse – Merely because another view on the same evidence is possible, that cannot be the basis to interf ere with the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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