Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 173 · Decided 24 March 2006
Ramreddy Rajeshkhanna Reddy and ANR. v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 173 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 348
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 997/2005
- Decided
- 24 March 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302
Headnote
Criminal Trial: Circumstantial evidence-Conviction based upon-Held, the prosecution C must establish all the pieces of incriminating circumstances by reliable and clinching evidence and the circumstances so proved must form such a chain of events as wpuld permit no conclusion other than one of accused No. 3 was prosecuted for committing murder of one Mohammad Rafiq Khan and, on trial, was convicted for commission of an offence under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Appellant No. 2 was convicted under Section 302 IPC. The trial court, relying on the
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