Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 411 · Decided 21 April 2023
Dakkata Balaram Reddy & Anr v. State of Andhra Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 411 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 887
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1295/2019
- Decided
- 21 April 2023
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, SANJAY KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 397, 450; Evidence Act Section 27, 106, 114(a); Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 397, 450 - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Case of the prosecution that appellants- accused (A1 and A2) trespassed into house of PW-1, wherein he also did his gold and silver business, concealing iron rods and robbed gold ornaments and brutally Accused held guilty of offences punishable u/ss.302, 397 and 450 and sentenced accordingly - Legality of - Held: Though there were no eye-witnesses to the actual killings, there were three separate witnesses PWs 4, 6, and 10, who were independent of each other and had no animosity
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