Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1268 · Decided 28 February 2017
Gandi Doddabasappa @ Gandhi Basavaraj v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1268 · [2017] 2 S.C.R. 62
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 631/2012
- Decided
- 28 February 2017
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, A.M. KHANWILKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 386, 397, 401; Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Penal Code. 1860: s. 302 - Murder - By appellant-accused - Of his daughter - Motive attributed to commit the murder was that the accused was frustrated as his daughter had married a boy of lower caste - PW- 18 (mother-in-law of the deceased) was the eye-witness - Trial of PW-18 and holding that circumstantial evidence was not sufficient to convict the accused, acquitted him - High Court accepted the prosecution case and recorded finding of guilt against the accused, but convicted him for offence uls. 304 (Part I) !PC and sentenced him to 10 years of
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