Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 190 · Decided 16 February 2022
Krishnamurthy @ Gunodu and Others v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 190 · [2022] 2 S.C.R. 433
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 288/2022
- Decided
- 16 February 2022
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 299, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 34 - Murder - Common intention - Three accused - Conviction of appellants-accused (K, T, G) for murder of victim-deceased u/s. 302 r/w s.34 and for offences u/ss.447, 504, 506, 341 - Division Bench of High Court affirmed their conviction appeal - Held: The assault on victim-deceased by appellant-K was fearsome, brutal and cruel - He had pinned down and tromped the deceased using his legs and hands fracturing four ribs, contusing and injuring the spinal cord, the chest and neck of the deceased - The injuries were
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