Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 86 · Decided 10 February 2012
Lokesh Shivakumar v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 86 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 896
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1326/2005
- Decided
- 10 February 2012
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, ANIL R. DAVE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.34 - Death by fatal blow - A-1 had borrowed money from victim-deceased - On the C fateful day, A-1 took the deceased out of the house on the pretext of p<ivment of money - All the accused surrounded the deceased - A-2-appellant picked up a gobbaly tree wood piece with it which caused his death - Conviction of appellant along with D the other three accused - High Court while acquitting A-3 and A-4 affirmed the conviction of appellant and A-1 - On appeal, held: There was no discrepancy between the ocular evidence and the medical evidence - Since
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