Supreme Court of India

Gubbala Venugopalaswamy and Ors. v. State of Andhra Pradesh

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Reported as [2004] 3 S.C.R. 909
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasa Y At JJ.
Decided 6 April 2004

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Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302, 326 and 324-Murder-Prosecution- Incident seen by eyewitnesses-Conviction of accused persons uls 302 relying on one of the eye witnesses although he was held not wholly reliable-High c Court convicted two accused uls. 326 and sentence to 10 years imprisonment and convicted one accused uls. 302 and another accused 11/s 324-0n appeal, co11Viction upheld-However, sentence of 10 years for offence uls. 326 reduced to 5 years. Criminal Trial: Conviction can be based on partially unreliable evidence of prosecution-However, conviction cannot be based on evidence which is

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