Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 435 · Decided 27 July 2010
Siddanki Ram Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 435 · [2010] 8 S.C.R. 1119
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1852/2008
- Decided
- 27 July 2010
- Bench
- RAJENDRA MAL LODHA, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B s.302 - Murder - Conviction by courts below - c Interference with - HELD: When evidence produced by prosecution neither has quality nor credibility, it would be unsafe to rest conviction upon such evidence, and judgments of courts below will have to be interfered with - In High Court mechanically relied upon the D prosecution evidence that it was the appellant who had attacked the deceased in court premises, without appreciating that it was unsafe to rest conviction upon the evidence of the witnesses with regard to the identification of the accused - Conviction
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