Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 633 · Decided 20 September 2006
Bhimappa Chandappa Hosamani and ORS. v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 633 · [2006] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 393
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 367/2005
- Decided
- 20 September 2006
- Bench
- B.P. SINGH, ALTAMAS KABIR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
HOSAMANI AND ORS. V. STATE OF KARNATAKA SEPTEMBER 20. 2006 [B.P. SINGH AND AL TAMAS KABIR. JJ.) Penal Code, 1860-,Sections 302 and 34-Accused charged for murder­ Trial Court acquitted the accused holding that PW I is not a truthful eyewitness A B and that PW 2 was not an eyewitness-High not a truthfirl eyeu:itness-Hence, accused are acquitted. Appellants were charged of the offence punishable under section 302 read with section 34 IPC for committing murder of the deceased while he D ·was sleeping on the katta in the outer portion of his house. • Trial Court acquitted
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