Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 238 · Decided 6 April 2004
Gubbala Venugopalaswamy and ORS. v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 238 · [2004] 3 S.C.R. 909
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 540/1998
- Decided
- 6 April 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326, 324, 120B, 148
Headnote
B . ..,. Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302, 326 and 324-Murder-Prosecution- Incident seen by eyewitnesses-Conviction of accused persons uls 302 relying on one of the eye witnesses although he was held not wholly reliable-High c Court convicted two accused uls. 326 and sentence to 10 years imprisonment co11Viction upheld-However, sentence of 10 years for offence uls. 326 reduced to 5 years. Criminal Trial: D Conviction can be based on partially unreliable evidence of prosecution-However, conviction cannot be based on evidence which is totally l' unreliable and the truth and falsehood therein is
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