Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 520 · Decided 18 August 2006
Pulicherla Nagaraju @nagaraja Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 520 · [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 633
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 945/2004
- Decided
- 18 August 2006
- Bench
- G.P. MATHUR, R.V. RAVEENDRAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304; CrPC
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: A B Section 378-Appeal against acquittal-Reversal of acquittal-Power of High Court-Scope and ambit of-Held: The power of the High Court in D an appeal from acquittal is no different from its power in an appeal from conviction-It can review and consider the entire rejected by the trial court or rejecting the evidence accepted by the trial court-The crux of the matter, however, is whether the High court is able to give clear reasons to dispel the C doubt raised and reject the reasons given by the trial court. Penal Code, 1860: Sections 302, 304 Part II and
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