Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 777 · Decided 7 July 2008
Kusuma Ankama Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 777 · [2008] 10 S.C.R. 89
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 185/2005
- Decided
- 7 July 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Last seen theory - Accused and deceased had illegal intimacy - Accused last seen with A B the deceased - Dead body of deceased found next day - Ac- c cused made extra-judicial confession before Village Admin­ istrative Officer - Circumstantial evidence point guilt ordered by Courts below. Evidence Act, 1872 : Extra judicial confession - Eviden- tiary value of D Prosecution case was that the appellant-accused had illegal intimacy with the deceased. On the fateful day, the accused met PW-1, son of the deceased and asked him to bring bottle of liquor
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