Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 278 · Decided 12 March 2007
Geejaganda Somaiah v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 278 · [2007] 3 S.C.R. 899
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 311/2007
- Decided
- 12 March 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Evidence Act Section 27, 114
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code,1860; Section 302-Conviction under-Voluntary disclosure made by the accused-Artie/es belonging to the deceased recovered from his possession- C Held, inference can safely be drawn that the accused committed murder of the deceased-Sections 27 and 114 of the Evidence Act, I 872. and share in family land by the deceased was opposed D by the accused. Two days before of the incident, on the request of the deceased, the Revenue Inspector has visited the the family lands for having equitable partition ofland. On the fateful day, the deceased left to meet the Revenue
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