Supreme Court of India
Ravishankar Tandon v. State of Chhattisgarh
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we pass the following order: 3 [2018] 13 SCR 248 : (2019) 12 SCC 253 : 2018 INSC 985 4 [2023] 1 SCR 335 : 2023 SCC OnLine SC 50 : 2023 INSC 23 [2024] 4 S.C.R. 575 Ravishankar Tandon v.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration In a case based on circumstantial evidence wherein the appellants- accused persons were convicted u/s.302 r/w s.34, ss.120B and 201, s.302 r/w ss.34 and 120B, IPC and sentenced to imprisonment for life, whether the prosecution was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the recovery of the dead body of the deceased from the pond was on the basis of the information given by the appellants in the statement recorded u/s.27, Evidence Act, 1872. Headnotes Evidence Act, 1872 – s.27 – Prosecution relied on the memorandum of the appellants-accused u/s.27 and the subsequent
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra
- 1984 Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
- 2005 State (n.c.t. of Delhi) v. Navjot Sandhu@afsan Guru
- 2003 State through Special Cell, New Delhi v. Navjot Sandhu @ Afshan Guru and Ors.
- 2018 Asar Mohammad and Ors. v. The State of U.P.
- 2023 Boby v. State of Kerala
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