Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 101 · Decided 19 February 1998
State of Andhra Pradesh v. Veddula Veera Reddy and ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 101 · [1998] 1 S.C.R. 1007
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1631/1996
- Decided
- 19 February 1998
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR, K.T. THOMAS (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149, 302, 304, 326
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 149, 302, 304 Part I and 326- Afurder-Accused entering into the room of deceased with deadly weapons A B at the dead hours of night-Assaulted the deceased causing his instant death-Evidence of eye witnesses-Corroboration by medical evidence- C Conviction and on the ground that prosecution had failed to prove the common intention of the accused-Validity of-Held, accused were members of unlm1ful assembly sharing common object to assault the deceased-Identified by all the eye witnesses-Evidence of eye witness suffers from no infirmity-Thus D High
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