Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 588 · Decided 22 April 2009
M.A. Antony @ Antappan v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 588 · [2009] 6 S.C.R. 829
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 811/2009
- Decided
- 22 April 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 449, 1, 380, 201; CrPC Section 164(2), 313; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 449, 1380 and 201 - Prosecution - Based on circumstantial evidence - Conviction c by courts below and award of death sentence - On appeal, '7' held: Conviction and sentence justified - Circumstances viz. motive, presence of accused at the site of offence recovery u/s. of scalp hair of accused, his judicial as well as extra-judicial confession, proved - D Confessional statement of the accused was made freely and voluntarily in compliance with the provisions of s. 164(2) CrPC - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 164(2). Appellant-accused was prosecuted
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