Supreme Court of India
Balu Sudam Khalde & Anr v. The State of Maharashtra
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We are of the opinion that suggestions made to the witness by the defence counsel and the reply to such suggestions would definitely form part of the evidence and can be relied upon by the Court along with other evidence on record to determine the guilt of the accused.
Judgment, page 24
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 r/w 34 – Prosecution case that verbal alter cation between the parties resulting in a fight wherein fi rst informant assaulted on the head and the deceased suffered sev ere assault and succumbed to his injuries – Appellants convicted u /s 302 r/w 34, and sentenced to life imprisonment, however, acqui ttal of -2 and -4 – High Court upheld the order – Interference with – Held: Not called for – Oral evidence of all the three eye witnesses is consistent and no good reason for the court to disbelieve the oc ular version as narrated by the three eyewitnesses – Cou rts
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Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Zainul v. The State of Bihar
- 2025 Rajan v. The State of Haryana
- 2024 Neeraj Sharma v. State of Chhattisgarh
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 mentioned
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