Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 959 · Decided 21 September 2007
Malleshappa v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 959 · [2007] 10 S.C.R. 153
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 101/2006
- Decided
- 21 September 2007
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, B. SUDERSHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 364, 201
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-ss. 302, 364 and 201-Murder- 'r Circumstantial evidence-Appellant with two of the accused taking away the deceased-A highly decomposed dead body without head and C hands found by police after 9 day since the deceased was missing­ Medical Officer not able to make out whether against the accused, before finding of the body-Attribution of motive of illicit relationship between deceased and wife of the D appellant-During trial majority of witnesses turning hostile-Trial .... h Court convicting the appellant and two of the accused on the basis of evidence of mother and
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