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    Patna High Court, which quashed a Magistrate's cognizance order and the prosecution of two agnates under Sections 448, 341, 323 and 506 IPC amid an ancestral property dispute
    Patna High Court holds an FIR with no date, a far-fetched kidnapping link and a property feud backdrop cannot sustain a prosecution
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    Patna High Court Acquits Life Convict In 2003 Child Murder; Says Confession Not Put Under Section 313

    The Patna High Court acquitted Rajesh Gupta, sentenced to life for the 2003 kidnapping and murder of a 10-year-old boy in Saharsa, holding that the alleged extra-judicial confession was never put to him under Section 313 CrPC, the last-seen evidence was weak, the motive flimsy, and the Investigating Officer was never examined.

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    "Such Extreme Act Runs Completely Contrary To Natural Instinct Of Mother": Supreme Court Acquits Woman in Infant Murder Case
    "Such Extreme Act Runs Completely Contrary To Natural Instinct Of Mother": Supreme Court Acquits Woman in Infant Murder Case
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    “Such Extreme Act Runs Completely Contrary To Natural Instinct Of Mother”: Supreme Court Acquits Woman in Infant Murder Case

    The Supreme Court set aside a woman’s conviction for killing her infant son, holding that extra-judicial confessions were weak and circumstantial evidence did not prove guilt. The Court said such an act defies a mother’s natural instinct.

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