Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 830 · Decided 14 July 2025
KUM. Shubha @ Shubhashankar v. State of Karnataka & Anr
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 830 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 859
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1029/2011
- Decided
- 14 July 2025
- Bench
- M.M. SUNDRESH, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNSS Section 473, 474; IPC Section 201, 302; CrPC Section 432, 433; Evidence Act Section 65B(4), 27; Constitution Article 161
Headnote
Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case, the conviction of the appellants by the High Court u/s.302 read with s.120-B, IPC and additionally, s.201, IPC for A-4 alone, is justified. Circumstantial Evidence - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302 deceased were engaged - Though A-4 was engaged to the deceased however, she was not willing to get married to him and expressed her grievance to A-1, her close friend - A-1 sought help from his cousin, A-3, who roped in his friend, A-2 and the accused persons murdered the deceased
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