Supreme Court of India

Darshan Singh v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2019] 14 S.C.R. 742
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 6 December 2019

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Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Murder – Conviction based on extra judicial confession – dead body was found i n a jute bag in the field of informant – Body was decomposed and was identified on the basis of clothes as the face was disfigured – Deceased was mother of accused-AS – Accused-SK was w ife and accused-JS was son of accused-AS – Accused-DS was se rvant in their house – Prosecution case was that deceased had inherited 5 bigha of land of her deceased son – Accused were not happy w ith this inheritance – Out of this land, deceased had sold 1 bigha and given the remaining 4 bighas on lease to

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