Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 303 · Decided 13 February 2025
Ramesh A. Naika v. The Registrar General, High Court of Karnataka ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 303 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1721
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 877-878/2020
- Decided
- 13 February 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC
Headnote
Appellant-R, a bank manager, was convicted of murdering his two minor children, along with his sister-in-law and mother-in- law, in June 2010. His motive stemmed from disapproval of his sister-in-law's relationship, which his wife and On 16.06.2010, he allegedly killed his sister-in-law and mother-in- law at his house in Tumkur and disposed of their bodies in a sump tank. The next day, he took his children to a water tank in Mangalore and drowned them. He later sent messages to his wife, suggesting she end her life. His
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