Supreme Court of India

Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2022] 12 S.C.R. 196

Bench Surya Kant and J. B. Pardiwala JJ.

Decided 14 July 2022

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What the Court ordered

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

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Murder – Evidence – Ocul ar evidence – Discovery of fact in consequence of an i nformation received from accused – Victim-deceased and appellant were working as labourers – Prosecution case that quarrel ensued between the victim and the appellant on the night of 10.12.2006 , which was witnessed by PW-1 and PW-8 – Appellant assaulted vi ctim with a hammer on his head – Victim died – Trial Court relied upon the oral testimony of the PW-1,PW-8 and the evidence of discovery of we apon i.e. hammer and convicted appellant – High Court concur red with the findings of the

Authorities it was built on

1983 Earabhadrappa Alias Krishnappa v. State of Karnataka cited by 70
1983 Bharwada Bhoginbhai Hirjibhai v. State of Gujarat cited by 52
2005 State (n.c.t. of Delhi) v. Navjot Sandhu@afsan Guru cited by 46
1960 State of U.P. v. Deoman Upadhyaya cited by 33
1975 Mohmed Inayatullah v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 23
1999 Leela Ram (d) through Duli Chand v. State of Haryana and Anr. cited by 11
1971 Himachal Pradesh Administration v. Shri Om Prakash cited by 11
1974 Balak Ram Etc. v. The State of U.P. cited by 8
1959 Tahsildar Singh and Another v. The State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 7
2009 Murli and Anr. v. State of Rajasthan cited by 5
1981 Dudh Nath Pandey v. The State of U.P. cited by 5
1994 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Babul Nath cited by 4
1991 Nain Singh and Anr. v. State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 1
1988 State of U.P. v. Anil Singh cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2023 Ram Gopal S/o Mansharam v. State of Madhya Pradesh mentioned

Of those, 1 mentioned

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