Supreme Court of India

Santosh @ Bhure v. State (g.n.c.t.) of Delhi

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Reported as [2023] 7 S.C.R. 719
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Manoj Misra and Aravind Kumar JJ.
Decided 28 April 2023

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the circumstances with regard to making of disclosure statements and conse quential discoveries/recoveries were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Judgment, page 51

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 r/w. s.34 – Acquittal und er – Prosecution case that ‘S’ was tenant of an apartment on the second floor of a building owned by PW-3 – On 12.09.2000, at about 10.40 a.m., an information was given to the police that a dead body is lying in that apartment – As per prosecution, two d isclosure/ confessional statements were made by each of the two accused (‘S’ and ‘N’) during police custody – Trial Court held that the proven circumstances constituted a chain which conclusively indicate d that the accused ‘S’ in the company of co-accused ‘N’ co mmitted the crime and to

Where later benches applied it

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