Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1422 · Decided 12 December 2008
Rangaiah v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1422 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 396
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 992/2005
- Decided
- 12 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 324, 362; CrPC Section 378
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 378 - Appeal against acquittal- Reversal of judgment of acquittal by-High c Court- Sustainability of - Held: Not sustainable - Judgment of acquittal should not be interfered with, if two views are possible - On facts, High Cou1 did not apply the right tesf for of trial court were probable - It cannot be said to be wholly unacceptable o - Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 324 - Criminal Law - Administration of justice. I According to the prosecution case, a quarrel took place between two groups of people of the same village. M had gone out of his house
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