Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 440 · Decided 1 July 2014
Krishnan @ Ramasamy & ORS. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 440 · [2014] 9 S.C.R. 340
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 512/2010
- Decided
- 1 July 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364, 302, 201, 365, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, ·1860: ss.364, 302, 201 r/w s.34- Conviction C based on circumstantial evidence - Last seen theory - PW- 1, mother of victim-deceased lodged FIR alleging that seven days back, accused persons picked up her son, beat him up and took him away and her son did not return home after arrested who took the police to the D borewell where the dead body of deceased was hidden - Courts below convicted accused no. 1 to 3 but acquitted • accused no.4 and 5 - On appeal, held: As per PW-1, deceased was last seen in temple in the company of accused Nos. 1 to 4 - As per PW-2,
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