YAKUB MIAN vs STATE OF BIHAR

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC for the murder of Mumtaz Mian, despite the High Court's reliance on evidence that was later deemed unreliable. The Court found that the evidence of the two sisters (PWs.3 and 10) was rightly disbelieved, and the prosecution's reliance on the blood-stained clothes was flawed due to the absence of human blood. The Court emphasized that the failure to confront the appellant with this evidence during his Section 313 Cr.P.C. statement was a significant procedural error, impacting the conviction's validity.