Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 378 · Decided 17 April 2023
Siju Kurian v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 378 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 397
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 64/2021
- Decided
- 17 April 2023
- Bench
- SURYA KANT, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 404, 419; CrPC Section 378, 313; Evidence Act Section 8, 25, 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 201, 404 and 419 - Circumstantial Evidence - Reliance upon - Prosecution case that the accused- labourer in the farmhouse of the victim, murdered the victim by hitting him with iron rod and then hid the dead body in a pit located in the garden - house and sold them as also sold the land to make undue monetary gain - Acquittal by the trial court on the ground that prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt - However, the High Court convicted and sentenced the accused for the offence punishable u/ss. 302,
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