Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 574 · Decided 11 December 2012
Kukapalli Mohan Rao v. State of A.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 574 · [2012] 9 S.C.R. 1086
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 316/2008
- Decided
- 11 December 2012
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 161, 145
Headnote
9 S.C.R. 1086 KUKAPALLI MOHAN RAO V. STATE OF A.P. (Criminal Appeal No. 316 of 2008) DECEOMBER 11, 2012 [K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN AND DIPAK MISRA, JJ.) Penal Code, 1860- s.302 - Murder- Eyewitness account - A/legation that appellant hacked the deceased with an axe C as he suspected that the latter was witnesses to establish that it was the appellant who had committed the crime - Evidence of PW2 D was trustworthy and it cannot be said that she was implicating the appellant - She had no motive to do so as well - Direct evidence of illicit intimacy cannot always be expected, but, taking into
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