Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 735 · Decided 6 May 2009
Gurnunath Donkappa Keri and ORS. v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 735 · [2009] 7 S.C.R. 817
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 341/2006
- Decided
- 6 May 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 143, 148, 504, 149
Headnote
• Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 307, 143, 148, 504 rlw s. 149 I>- - Longstanding dispute between the parties - Murderous assault - Three deceased - Conviction of accused-appellants - Challenge to - Held: A holistic approach is required to be c taken in a case of this nature - FIR, having occurrence and the police station, and in ·' peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, could not be ' said to have been lodged after long delay - Genesis of the occurrence was proved - False implication was unlikely - All D prosecution witnesses were natural witnesses - Essential
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