Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 67 · Decided 3 April 1973
Chaganti Kotaiah & ORS. v. Gogineni Venkateshwara Rao & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 67 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 867
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 173/1970
- Decided
- 3 April 1973
- Bench
- C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, I.D. DUA, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 323, 324, 326; CrPC Section 439(4)
Headnote
Code of Criminc.:l. procedure (Act S o1 1898) s. 439-Revision against acquittal by private party-Powers of High Court. In connection with the murder of two persons and injuries sustained by some prt>secution witnesses, 30 persons were tried by the Sessions Court for offences under ss. 148, 302 302 read with s. 34 and ss. 323, 324 and 326 I. P. C. The trial court C\,nvicted 8 of them Of some of the offences but acquitted them Of th_e other offences, and al~o acquitted the remaining 22 accused of all the charges. The co,nvicted 8 accwed filed appeals before the High Court. The State had
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