Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 8 · Decided 4 January 2013
Mookkiah v. State, REP. BY the Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 8 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 881
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2085/2008
- Decided
- 4 January 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34; CrPC Section 378
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302134 - Prosecution under - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - Held: The C evidence of the eye-witnesses and medical evidence support the prosecution case - There was no delay in lodging FIR or dispatching the same to Magistrate Court - FSL report Court rightly reversed the order of acquittal and convicted the accused. D Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 378 - Appeal against acquittal - Interference with - Power of High Court - Scope of - Held: High Court, as an appellate court, even while dealing with an appeal against acquittal,
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