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PETITIONER: RATAN GOND
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BIHAR
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 19/09/1958
BENCH: DAS, S.K. BENCH: DAS, S.K. IMAM, SYED JAFFER KAPUR, J.L.
CITATION: 1959 AIR 18 1959 SCR 1336 CITATOR INFO : R 1984 SC1622 (18)
ACT: Evidence-Statement of dead person not made in judicial pro- ceeding or to Person authorised nor relating to the cause of his death-Admissibility-Confession-Person in authority - Circumstantial Evidence-Use in corroboration of confession- Indian Evidence Act, (1 of 1872), SS. 24, 32 and 33.
HEADNOTE: The appellant was charged with the murder of a girl Baisakhi. On information given by Aghani, younger sister of the deceased, the headless body of the deceased was re- covered. The appellant absconded but was found in another village and was brought back by the village volunteer force. On interrogation by the Mukhia, Sarpanch and a panch of the Gram Panchayat the appellant made an extrajudicial confession. A blood-stained cutting weapon was recovered from a room of the appellant. At his instance some strands of hair were recovered from a place at a short distance 1337 from the place where the dead body had been recovered, which were stained with human blood and appeared to be scalp hair of a human female. The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death and the High Court upheld the conviction and sentence. ...