Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 838 · Decided 5 November 2024
Karakkattu Muhammed Basheer v. The State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 838 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 498
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 291/2023
- Decided
- 5 November 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
Issue as regards sustainability of the order of conviction and sentence of the accused, when the case not proved beyond reasonable doubt against the accused. Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 201 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Main 201 for murder of one lady during night, at the house of other accused - Other accused convicted and sentenced u/s. 201 - Prosecution case that motive for murder was illicit relation between the two accused - Order of conviction and sentence upheld by the High Court -
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