Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 269 · Decided 21 March 2023
Nagaraj Reddy v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 269 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 457
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 886/2023
- Decided
- 21 March 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, VIKRAM NATH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 341
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Concurrent conviction of the appellant- accused No.1 for off ences punishable u/ss.302, 341 IPC primarily on the basis of evidence of PW-1, an interested witness, if justifi ed. Evidence - Interested witness - Previous enmity - Conviction based witness, without corroboration of such testimony - Legality: Held: PW-1 is an interested witness, being the brother of the deceased - He admitted that there existed previous enmity between the parties wherein the deceased and his wife-PW-3 were injured after a scuffl e between
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