Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 271 · Decided 15 April 2014
Prakash v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 271 · [2014] 5 S.C.R. 242
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1682/2005
- Decided
- 15 April 2014
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Murder- Acquittal by trial court C - Conviction by High Court on the basis of circumstantial evidence - Appeal against conviction - Prosecution case that appellant went to the house of victim-deceased and robbed her ornaments and murdered her - High Court relied on the in deceased 0 house on the fateful day; that fingerprint expert found his fingerprint on a plastic cover; that appellant's clothes were blood-stained when he was arrested after 6 days and the blood-stains tallied with the blood group of the deceased; that the ornaments of the deceased were
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