Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 862 · Decided 16 July 2025
Byluru Thippaiah @ Byaluru Thippaiah @ Nayakara Thippaiah v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 862 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 550
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2490/2023
- Decided
- 16 July 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC
Headnote
Issue arose as regards commutation of the death sentence awarded to the appellant for committing brutal murder of his wife, sister-in- law and his three children. Sentence/Sentencing - Death sentence - Commutation murder by the appellant of his wife, sister-in- law and his three children - Motive was that the appellant accused his wife and sister-in-law of being promiscuous and that he had not fathered the three children - Trial court convicted the appellant for the offence punishable u/s.302
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