Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 870 · Decided 7 July 2009
Mallappa Siddappa Alakanur & ORS. v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 870 · [2009] 10 S.C.R. 196
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1055/2002
- Decided
- 7 July 2009
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 504, 148, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 504, 148 rlw s, 149 - Prosecution under - Of six persons - Eye-witnesses to the C incident a child - One ef the witness, who was told about the incident by the child witness, declared hostile - Other witness see1n the accused running away with the blood-stained weapons the accused by trial court - Conviction of 4 of the accused by High Court - One of the o convicted accused died, hence - On appeal, by the rest of the convicted accused, Held: Conviction by High Court of the four accused justified - Their offence proved - Appreciation of evidence by the trial
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