Supreme Court of India

Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2007] 2 S.C.R. 630

Bench C.K. Thakker J.

Decided 15 February 2007

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, the appeal deserves to be allowed and is, accordingly, allowed.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 378-Penal Code, 1860- r ' , Sections 143, 147, 148, 324, 302 rlw section 149-Acquittal of accused by c trial court-High Court reversing the order of acquittal and convicting the accused -Correctness of-Held, where two views are possible on record, one favourable to the accused should be adopted-On facts, the view taken by the trial court cannot be held to be illegal, improper or contrary to law- Hence, order of acquittal passed by trial court restored. Prosecution filed a charge-sheet before trial court against appellants- accused for offences punishable

Authorities it was built on

1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra cited by 159
2002 Harijana Thirupala and Ors. v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad cited by 19

Where later benches applied it

2023 R. Sreenivasa v. State of Karnataka relied on
2023 Siju Kurian v. State of Karnataka relied on
2022 Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel v. State of U.P. relied on
2022 Rajesh Prasad v. The State of Bihar and Anr. Etc. relied on
2021 N. Vijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2019 Shailendra Rajdev Pasvan and Others v. State of Gujarat Etc. relied on
2019 Sampat Babso Kale & Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2019 Raju Ambadas Gangekar v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2018 Mohinder Singh v. The State of Punjab relied on
2018 Motiram Padu Joshi and Others v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2017 State of Karnataka v. Selvi J. Jayalalitha & Ors. relied on
2016 Sadhu Saran Singh v. State of U.P. and Ors. relied on
2015 Golbar Hussain and Ors. v. State Ofassamandanr. relied on
2014 Dilawar Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana relied on
2014 Muralidhar @ Gidda & Anr. v. State of Karnataka relied on
2014 Basappa v. State of Karnataka relied on
2014 Shyamal Saha & Anr. v. State of West Bengal relied on
2013 Shivasharanappa and Others v. State of Karnataka relied on
2013 Chinnam Kameswara Rao and Ors. v. State of Ap. Rep. by Home Secretary relied on
2013 Mookkiah v. State, Rep. by the Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu relied on
2012 Murugesan and Ors. v. State through Inspector of Police relied on
2012 State of Haryana v. Shakuntla and Ors. relied on
2011 Mrinal Das & Ors. v. The State of Tripura relied on
2008 State of Punjab v. Sukhchain Singh & Anr. relied on
2008 Murugan and Anr. v. State Rep. by Public Prosecutor, Madras, Tamil Nadu Anr. relied on
2008 Suraj Singh v. Arijit Pasayat and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma, Jj.] relied on
2026 Dr. Anand Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2025 Renuka Prasad v. The State Represented by Assistant Superintendent of Police referred to
2024 Vijay Singh @ Vijay Kr. Sharma v. The State of Bihar referred to
2022 Subramanya v. State of Karnataka referred to
2021 Mohan @srinivas @seena @tailor Seena v. The State of Karnataka referred to
2021 Achhar Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh referred to
2021 Jayamma & Anr v. State of Karnataka referred to
2020 Shri Satish Kumar & Anr. v. The State of Himachal Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2018 Smt. Shamim v. State (gnct of Delhi) referred to
2018 Yashwant Etc. v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2017 Pawan Kumar v. State of H.P. referred to
2016 Harbeer Singh v. Sheeshpal & Ors. referred to
2015 Gurjit Singh Alias Gora and Anr. v. State of Haryana referred to
2015 Vinod Kumar v. State of Haryana referred to
2014 Vijay Pal Singh and Others v. State of Utiarakhand referred to
2013 Mritunjoy Biswas v. Pranab @ Kuti Biswas and Another referred to
2012 Syed Ahmed v. State of Karnataka referred to
2011 State of Rajasthan Th. Secy.home Dept. v. Abdul Mannan & Anr. referred to
2012 Jugendra Singh v. State of U.P. mentioned

Of those, 26 relied on · 18 referred to · 1 mentioned

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