Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 858 · Decided 23 July 2008
Munigadppa Meenaiah v. The State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 858 · [2008] 11 S.C.R. 172
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1206/2006
- Decided
- 23 July 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - I/legitimate re/a- c tion between parties - Accused suspecting chastity of victim, hatched a plan and murc!ered her by hitting her with pestle - Sons of victim as also shop keeper saw victim and accused together in night of occurrence, thereafter, dead of the house of accused - Murder weapon recovered at D the instance of accused - Conviction u/s. 302 and sentence of life imprisonment by courts below - Justification· of- Held: Justified -- Circumstances make complete chain of evidence - Evidence of witness being close relative and
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