Supreme Court of India

Rajesh @ Sarkari & Anr v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2020] 14 S.C.R. 1

Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee JJ.

Decided 3 November 2020

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we have arrived at the conclusion that the prosecution has failed to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt.

Judgment, page 44

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w. s.34 – Prosecution case that complainant’s elder son was shot dead inside a Univ ersity – Complainant-PW-4 and his younger son-PW-5 stated that they ha d seen the incident and they had taken victim to the hospital – Victim was declared dead – Three accused persons including both the appellants were apprehended and arraigned – All the three accused persons refused to undergo Test Identification Parade a nd pleaded not guilty – The Trial Court convicted all the three accuse d persons for having committed murder and sentenced them to impris onment for life – All

Authorities it was built on

1971 Matru Alias Girish Chandra v. State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 10
2003 Visveswaran v. State Rep. by S.D.M. cited by 10
1995 Sukhwant Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 4
2002 State of Punjab v. Jugraj Singh and Ors. cited by 4
2012 Govindaraju@ Govinda v. State by Sriramapuram P.S. & Anr. cited by 4
2007 Vineet Kumar Chauhan v. State of U.P. cited by 4
2015 State of Rajasthan v. Daud Khan cited by 3
1962 Gurcharan Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 3
1999 Mohan Singh and Anr. v. State of M.P. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamilnadu referred to
2024 P. Sasikumar v. The State Rep. by the Inspector of Police referred to
2021 Mahendra K C v. The State of Karnataka & Anr. mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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