Supreme Court of India

Pawan Kumar Chourasia v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2023] 2 S.C.R. 875
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 14 March 2023

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Criminal Law – Evidence – Extra-Judicial Confession – Conviction based on, when not justified – Appellant was conv icted for offences punishable u/s.302 r/w 34 and s.201, I PC based on extra-judicial confession – Held: Case of the prosecuti on was that the appellant had confessed to PW-1 to PW-9 – However, PW1 to PW6 including the complainant himself whose son was killed did not support prosecution – PW7 to PW9, the only material prosecut ion witnesses were not consistent about the place at which the alleged confession was made – Even after the alleged extra- judicial confession of committing

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