Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 239 · Decided 16 March 2023
Udayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 239 · [2023] 2 S.C.R. 943
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1741/2010
- Decided
- 16 March 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 120B
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : ss. 302, 120B - Murder - Due to rivalry A-1 alongwith A-3 hatched a conspiracy to murder the victim and engaged services of A-2 for the same - A-2 killed the victim with a sickle thereafter, fled with A-1 and A-2 - Incident witnessed by PW-1 - life imprisonment - High Court acquitted A-1 and A3 for both the offences and A-2 for the offence u/s 120B, however, conviction of A-2 for the offence punishable u/s 302 upheld on the basis of identification by PW1 - On appeal, held: Other than the identification of A-2 being the
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