Supreme Court allowed the appeal and acquitted Narayan Yadav.

The Supreme Court has, while acquitting a convict from murder charges directed that a copy of the judgment has to be sent to all the High Courts. One Narayan Yadav of Chhattisgarh State was charged of murder of his friend when his friend had asked Narayan Yadav to bring his girl friend and permit him to have sex with her. Enraged by it, he had murdered his friend, took his jewels and ran away. After few days of the murder, Narayan Yadav had gone to the police station and confessed based upon which FIR was registered. On his confession, police recovered the knife used to commit the murder, found the body, blood stained dress and jewels of the deceased. The Sessions Court convicted him of murder and sentenced him to undergo life imprisonment. But, the High Court altered the conviction from Sec 302 to to Sec304 IPC and reduced the sentence from life imprisonment to 10 years against which Narayan Yadav approached the Supreme Court. Senior Advocate A. Sirajudeen appeared for the appellant Narayan Yadav.
In the judgment of acquittal by Justices Pardiwala and Mahadevan, the judges held that the contents of the FIR by the accused is not admissible in evidence and it is hit by Sec 25 of the Evidence Act. The doctor could speak only about the injuries she had seen in the body of the deceased and not about the factum of murder. In the absence of recording the exact statement which led to the discovery, the discovery is of no value.
On the above reasoning, the Supreme Court allowed the appeal and acquitted Narayan Yadav.