Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 880 · Decided 22 July 2025
Esakkimuthu v. State Represented BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 880 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1361
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3099/2025
- Decided
- 22 July 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 120B, 34
Headnote
Whether the courts below erred in convicting the appellants and sentencing them to life imprisonment for the murder of the deceased relying upon the testimonies of PW-1 and PW-2, who were interested witnesses being the son and wife of the Related/Interested witnesses - Reliance upon - When not proper - Appellants, A1 and A2 were convicted u/s.302, IPC and u/s.302 r/w 34, IPC, respectively for the murder of the deceased relying upon the eye-witness accounts of PW-1 and PW-2 (son and wife of the deceased) -
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