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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Before :- Dr. Arijit Pasayat & P.P. Naolekar, JJ.
Criminal Appeal No. 339 of 2002. D/d. 18.7.2007
State of Maharashtra - Appellant
Versus
Raju Bhaskar Potphode - Respondent
For the Appellant :- Ravindra Keshavarao Adsure, Advocate.
For the Respondent :- U.U. Lalit, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Aparna Bhat, Advocate.
JUDGMENT
Dr. Arijit Pasayat, J. - Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court directing acquittal of respondent-Raju Bhaskar Potphode (hereinafter referred to as the 'accused'). Accused was found guilty of the offence punishable under Sections 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the 'IPC') and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Greater Bombay, in Sessions Case No. 355 of 1993. Accusations which led to the trial of the accused was that he had on 7.2.1993 at about 4.30 p.m. committed the murder of one Sunil Gore (hereinafter referred to as the 'deceased') by stabbing with a knife.
