Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 733 · Decided 18 December 2003
State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Srinivasulu Reddy and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 733 · [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 1050
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 897/1997
- Decided
- 18 December 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, I 860 : Sections 34, 302 and 326-Disputes and civil litigation between C accused and deceased_;Accused attacking and hacking deceased with sha1p edged-weapons in presence.of eye witnesses and threatening them­ Fifty injuries on body of deceased-Medical report stating death caused 326 on doubts regarding which injury caused death and attributable to which accused-Held, Section 302 rightly applied by Trial Court and D High Court not justified in altering conviction-:-Common intention clearly perceived and proved beyond reasonable doubt from conduct of accused and manner of
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