Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 764 · Decided 8 May 2009
Ningappa Yallappa Hosamani & ORS. v. State of Karnataka and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 764 · [2009] 8 S.C.R. 421
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 495/2006
- Decided
- 8 May 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149, 201, 34; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Sq. 302134 and 201134 - Murder- Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Held: Since dead body of victim c recovered in furtherance of voluntary information furnished by the accLJsed who were convicted by High Court for the murder, natu1c1I presumption in absence of explanation they had murdered the deceased and buried the dead body - - Prosecution has conclusively proved that accused had D disposed of the dead body by putting it in a gunny bag and burying it - Judgment of High Court does not warrant any interference - Circumstantial evidence - Evidence Act, 1872- s.27.
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