Supreme Court of India

Sandeep Kumar v. State of Haryana & Anr

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Reported as [2023] 9 S.C.R. 1210
Bench C. T. Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia JJ.
Decided 28 July 2023

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What the Court ordered

We hold that though only a prima facie case is to be established from the evidence led before the court, not necessarily tested on the anvil of cross-examinatio n, it requires much stronger evidence than mere probability of his complicity.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.319 – The appell ant- informant (PW-9) moved an application u/s. 319 befor e the Trial Court to summon three additional accused persons, R , K and P, who were named in FIR but not in the charge-sheet and they w ere identified by the appellant as assailants in his examination- in-chief during trial – The trial Court allowed the application and summoned the three accused persons – However, the High Court set as ide the said order in revision – The revision was allowed for the reasons that R was found innocent during investigation and tha t he never used the

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