Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 548 · Decided 27 November 2012
Madala Venkata Narsimha Rao v. State of A.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 548 · [2012] 11 S.C.R. 951
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 393/2009
- Decided
- 27 November 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 376 - Rape and Murder A B - Circumstantial evidence - Three witnesses saw the accused coming out of the house of the victim - Blood-stains on the C clothes of the accused - Victim telling the witnesses that the accused had assaulted her - In post-mortem, the doctor on the accused - Trial court acquitted the accused of both the charges - High Court convicted the accused - On appeal, held: There was sufficient D evidence to hold the appellant guilty of committing the murder - But no cogent or admissible evidence regarding rape of the victim - The only
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