Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 124 · Decided 20 February 2024
Kalinga @ Kushal v. State of Karnataka BY Police Inspector Hubli
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 124 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 391
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 622/2013
- Decided
- 20 February 2024
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI (1-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Whether the extra judicial confession of the appellant-accused was admissible, credible and sufficient for his conviction thereon for the murder of his brother-PW-1's son; whether the testimony of PW-1 could be termed as reliable and the chain of circumstantial evidence was complete and consistent for arriving at the conclusion of guilt. Evidence - Extra judicial confession - Evidentiary value - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Trial Court acquitted all the accused persons -
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