Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 156 · Decided 28 March 2000
Kothakalava Naga Subba Reddi and ORS. v. The Public Prosecutor High Court of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 156 · [2000] 2 S.C.R. 583
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 478/1998
- Decided
- 28 March 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 148, 3021149
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Ss.148 and 3021149-Murder-Attack on victim by 6 persons armed with deadly weapons-Death o,f victim-Trial Court not believing the evidence of eyewitnesses-Ordered acquittal of all accused-High Court re-appreciat­ ing the evidence and convicting 4 of the accused and fully justified in reversing acquittal order passed by Sessions Judge whose approach in appreciating evidence of material witnesses was absolutely unreasonable and unjustified-Code of A B c Criminal Procedure, 1973-Appeal before High Court against acquittal. D The four accused-appellants
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