Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 610 · Decided 15 October 2004
Shashidhar Purandhar Hegde and ANR. v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 610 · [2004] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 536
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 748/1999
- Decided
- 15 October 2004
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, C.K. THAKKER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 263, 506, 507, 34; CrPC Section 378, 162
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Sections 263, 506 and 507-Kidnapping-Manner of kidnapping and his rescue clearly narrated by kidnapped child-Demand C of ransom and threat to father of child-Version of child and father corroborated by other witnesses-Accused apprehended by some· witnesses­ Case of the accused-Acquittal by trial Court doubting the roles played by witnesses who apprehended the accused and in view of certain discrepancies in the evidence of some witnesses-Conviction by High D Court relying on evidence of kidnapped child and his father-On appeal, held: High Court rightly
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