Supreme Court of India

Pulicherla Nagaraju @nagaraja Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 633

Bench G.P. Mathur J.

Decided 18 August 2006

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Section 378-Appeal against acquittal-Reversal of acquittal-Power of High Court-Scope and ambit of-Held: The power of the High Court in an appeal from acquittal is no different from its power in an appeal from conviction-It can review and consider the entire evidence and come to its own conclusions by either accepting the evidence rejected by the trial court or rejecting the evidence accepted by the trial court-The crux of the matter, however, is whether the High court is able to give clear reasons to dispel the doubt raised and reject the reasons given by the

Authorities it was built on

1968 Laxman Kalu Nikalje v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 5
1994 State of Karnataka v. Vedanayagam cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2023 N. Ramkumar v. The State Rep. by Inspector of Police relied on
2023 Anbazhagan v. The State Represented by the Inspector of Police relied on
2023 Prasad Pradhan & Anr. v. The State of Chhattisgarh relied on
2021 Mohd. Rafiq @ Kallu v. The State of Madhya Pradesh relied on
2020 Stalin v. State Represented by the Inspector of Police relied on
2018 State of Rajasthan v. Leela Ram @ Leela Dhar relied on
2015 Bivash Chandra Debnath @ Bivash D & Others v. State of West Bengal relied on
2015 Balu S/o Onkar Pund & Others v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2013 Ankush Shivaji Gaikwad v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2012 Thoti Manohar v. State of Andhra Pradesh relied on
2024 Manikandan v. State by the Inspector of Police referred to
2023 Abhishek Sharma v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) referred to
2019 R. Jayapal v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr. referred to
2019 Anand Ramachandra Chougule v. Sidarai Laxman Chougala and Others referred to
2026 Balku Oram v. State of Odisha mentioned
2022 The State of Uttarakhand v. Sachendra Singh Rawat mentioned
2007 Muthu v. State by Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu mentioned

Of those, 10 relied on · 4 referred to · 3 mentioned

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