Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 128 · Decided 9 February 2009
Prasad @ Hari Prasad Acharya v. ST Ate of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 128 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 1089
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 242/2009
- Decided
- 9 February 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 447, 376(2)(g), 506, 34
Headnote
Criminal Appeal - High Court upheld conviction by a non-reasoned order - Justification of - Held: Not justified - c High Court ought to have set forth its reasons, howsoever brief, in its order indicative of an application of its mind - Absence of reasons rendered the High Court's matter remitted to High Court - Principles of natural • f justice - Right to reason. D ' The trial court convicted the accused-appellant under ss.447, 376(2)(g) and 506 IPC rlw s.34 IPC. In appeal, High Court upheld the conviction. In appeal to this Court, the judgment passed by the E High
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