Supreme Court of India

Malleshappa v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2007] 10 S.C.R. 153
Bench R.V. Ra Veendran and B. Sudershan Reddy JJ.
Decided 21 September 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the prosecution did not establish the charges framed against the appellant under Sections 302, 364 and 201 IPC. The conviction and sentence awarded against the B appellant is, accordingly, set aside and he is acquitted of all the charges.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-ss. 302, 364 and 201-Murder- 'r Circumstantial evidence-Appellant with two of the accused taking away the deceased- highly decomposed dead body without head and hands found by police after 9 day since the deceased was missing­ Medical Officer not able to make out whether the body was that of a male or female-Identification thereof by mother of the deceased­ FIR lodged against the accused, before finding of the body-Attribution of motive of illicit relationship between deceased and wife of the appellant-During trial majority of witnesses turning hostile-Trial .... h Court

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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