Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 845 · Decided 15 July 2025
Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamilnadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 845 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 984
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1672/2019
- Decided
- 15 July 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376, 397; Evidence Act Section 27, 106
Headnote
Issue arose as to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court upholding the order of the conviction and death sentence of the appellant for offence punishable u/ss.302, 376 and 397 IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 376, 397 - Evidence Rape and Murder - Circumstantial Evidence - DNA evidence - Reliability - Prosecution case that victims- young man and girl went to a tourist place, where allegedly, the appellant first came to the prosecution witness and his partner asking to part with her jewellery and
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