Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 72 · Decided 4 February 2013
R. Shaji v. State of KERALA.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 72 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 1172
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1774/2010
- Decided
- 4 February 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161, 164; Evidence Act Section 157, 3, 9, 134
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.1208 - Murder - Criminal conspiracy -Dismembered parts of victim's body C recovered from a lake - Case based on circumstantial evidence against accused-appellant and other accused persons - Conviction of appellant - Justification - Held: Justified - Evidence on reason to harbour animosity towards o the victim 'P', as he may well have been unable to tolerate the intimacy that 'P' had developed with appellant's wife - PW testified that appellant had threatened that in the event that he was able to lay his hands on 'P', he would chop him up into
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