Supreme Court of India

Jabir & Ors v. The State of Uttarakhand

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Reported as [2023] 1 S.C.R. 969
Bench S. Ra Vindra Bhat and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha JJ.
Decided 17 January 2023

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, the conviction and sentence of the appellant- accused cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 364, 201 – The prosecution case was that the victim ‘ ’, aged about 7 years, went m issing on 8.10.1999 – On 10.10.1999, his dead body was found in the sugarcane field of ‘Y’ in Village – The victim’s fat her (PW-1) filed an application u/s. 156(3) Cr.P. . on 19.11.1999 – FIR was recorded on 21.11.1999 – In the FIR, the informant alleged that he was tol d by PW-3 and PW-2 that they had seen -3 taking deceased boy ‘ ’ into her house on 08.10.1999 – PW-4 told him that on 09.10 .1999 at about 6 AM, he had seen ‘ ’ standing along with -1 and -2 on the road near Y’s

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