Ravishankar Tandon vs State Of Chhattisgarh

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2024 Supreme(SC) 335

B. R. GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA
Ravishankar Tandon – Appellant
Versus
State Of Chhattisgarh – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Manish Kumar Saran, AOR Ms. Ananya Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Chandrika Prasad Mishra, Adv. Ms. Nishi Prabha Singh, Adv. Mr. U.N. Mishra, Adv. Ms. Swati Surbhi, Adv. Ms. Prashasti Singh, Adv. Ms. Neha Ahlawat, Adv. Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR Mr. Chandrika Prasad Mishra, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar Umrao, AOR Ms. Nishi Prabha Singh, Adv. Ms. Prashasti Singh, Adv. Ms. Swati Surbhi, Adv. Mr. V. Ramasubbu, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Kumar Tiwari, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Praneet Pranav,Dy.A.G. Mr. Prashant Singh, AOR Mrs. Prerna Dhall, Adv. Mr. Piyush Yadav, Adv. Mr. Harshvardhan Mall Vishen, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

B.R. GAVAI, J.

1. Leave granted in SLP (Criminal) Nos. 837 and 1174 of 2024.

2. These appeals challenge the judgment and order dated 2nd January, 2023 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur in Criminal Appeal Nos. 194, 232 and 277 of 2013 wherein the Division Bench dismissed the criminal appeals preferred by the appellants, namely Ravishankar Tandon (accused No.1), Umend Prasad Dhrutlahre (accused No.2), Dinesh Chandrakar (accused No.3) and Satyendra Kumar Patre (accused No.4) and upheld the order of conviction and sentence dated 5th February, 2013 as recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Mungeli (hereinafter referred to as the ‘trial court’) in Sessions Trial No. 10 of 2012.

3. Shorn of details, the facts leading to the present appeals are as under:-

3.1 On 2nd December 2011, Ramavtar (PW-1) lodged a missing person report being Missing Person Serial No. 10/11 at Police Station Kunda after his son Dharmendra Satnami (deceased) went missing. While an extensive search was being conducted, on the basis of suspicion, the police interrogated the appellants. During the interrogation, the appellants disclosed that they had strangula

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2024 Supreme(SC) 335

B. R. GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTARavishankar Tandon – AppellantVersusState Of Chhattisgarh – Respondent

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B. R. GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA
Ravishankar Tandon – Appellant
Versus
State Of Chhattisgarh – Respondent