Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 320 · Decided 19 April 2024
Babu Sahebagouda Rudragoudar and Others v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 320 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 174
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 985/2010
- Decided
- 19 April 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302; CrPC Section 378; Evidence Act Section 27, 60
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in deciding the appeal as a first Court on independent appreciation of evidence and recording its own findings to hold the accused appellants (A-1, A-2 and A-3) guilty of charge u/s. 302 r/w. s.34 IPC. Code of s.378 - Appeal in case of acquittal - Scope of interference by an appellate Court for reversing the judgment of acquittal recorded by the trial Court: Held: It is beyond the pale of doubt that the scope of interference by an appellate Court for reversing the judgment of acquittal
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