Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 786 · Decided 5 September 2018
C. R. Kariyappa v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 786 · [2018] 11 S.C.R. 150
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 781/2009
- Decided
- 5 September 2018
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, INDIRA BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 325, 326
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 325 and 326 - Voluntarily causing grievous hurt - On facts, appellant-school teacher assaulted a second class student with wooden stick resulting in loss of eye sight on the left eye - Acquittal by the trial court on the ground of contradictions in witnesses, student being tutored before examination and delay in lodging of FIR - However, the High Court convicted the appellant u/s. 326 - On appeal, held: Evidence of the injured student cannot be discarded on the ground that he was tutored about the occurrence before the
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