Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1055 · Decided 19 August 2009
Gamini Bala Koteswara Rao & ORS. v. State of AP. THR. Secretary
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1055 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 634/2008
- Decided
- 19 August 2009
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860 ss.. 302 and 148 - Murder - Manda/ Parishad elections c r: - About 20 persons hurling stones and attacking one of the candidate and his nephew (PW-1) - Death of the candidate .. - Accused A-1 to A·3 attributed specific roles in causing stone and knife injuries court termed eye witnesses as an interested witness and a chance witness and D' held oral testimony to be in variance with medical evidence - Acquittal of all the accused - High Court setting aside acquittal of A-1 to A-3 - Held: Presence of both the eye- witnesses at the scene of occurrence was
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