Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 187 · Decided 28 February 2017
Parasa Koteswararao v. Eede Sree Hari & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 187 · [2017] 2 S.C.R. 89
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 337/2006
- Decided
- 28 February 2017
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Pena/Code, 1860: s. 302 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Conviction by trial court on the motive, last seen theory, recovery, absconding of accused and false information given by accused No. 2 about the whereabouts of the deceased - Acquittal by High Court - On appeal - Acquittal order upheld circumstances not complete. Dismissing the appeal, the Court HELD: The High Court judgment cannot be characterized as perverse. Being an appeal against acquittal, it is difficult to say that the view of the High Court is not a possible view. In the present case, the motive for the crime has not
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