Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 108 · Decided 22 January 2025
Thammaraya and Another v. The State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 108 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 948
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 649/2013
- Decided
- 22 January 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 201; CrPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
Whether the conviction of the appellants-accused under Sections 201 and 302 read with Section 34, Penal Code, 1860 is sustainable. Evidence - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Prosecution relied solely on recoveries of articles allegedly - Conviction u/s.201, s.302 r/w s.34, IPC - Sustainability: Held: Unsustainable - Impugned judgments quashed, set aside - Neither the disclosure statements of the accused persons were proved as per law nor the prosecution was able to establish the factum of recoveries of
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