Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 455 · Decided 20 July 2006
S. Sudershan Reddy & ORS. v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 455 · [2006] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 743
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 639/2005
- Decided
- 20 July 2006
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, R.V. RAVEENDRAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
S. SUDERSHAN REDDY & ORS. A v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH JULY 20, 2006 [ARIJITPASAYAT ANDR.V. RAVEENDRAN,JJ.] B Criminal Law: Evidence-Testimony of related witness-Held, relationship is not a factor to affect credibility of a witness-Judgment of High Court affirming C conviction and sentence u/s mentioned in FIR-Held, is non­ consequential-It is not necessary that minutest details should be stated in D FIR-For lodging FIR, more particularly, in a murder case, stress must be on prompt lodging of FIR-However, evidence of one of the witnesses is categorical that he saw the attack
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