Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 531 · Decided 22 November 2012
Vadlakonda Lenin v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 531 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 1135
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 126/2009
- Decided
- 22 November 2012
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 498A
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Allegation that appellant had murdered his wife while she was sleeping and had run away - Case resting on circumstantial evidence - Conviction C of appellant by Courts below - Justification - Held: Justified - Evidence of PWs 1 and 2 (father-in-law and had been persistently demanding additional dowry and ill-treating the deceased - Deceased was found lying injured in her house D by PWs 3 and 5 - Nobody except appellant was in the house immediately before the occurrence - Appellant was seen fleeing away from the house by PW3 - Thereafter,
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