Supreme Court of India
Shivasharanappa and Others v. State of Karnataka
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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid premises, the appeals are allowed and the judgment of conviction passed by the High G Court in Criminal Appeal No. 937 of 1999 is set aside and the accused-appellants are acquitted of the charges.
Judgment, page 16
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860- ss. 143, 147,448,302 and 201 rlw. s. 149 - Prosecution under - Acquittal by trial court on the ground that in view of unnatural behaviour of witnesses, it was not safe to convict the accused on the basis of their evidence - High Court convicted all the accused - Held: Trial court rightly disbelieved the evidence of the witnesses treating their conduct as unnatural - There were no compelling o circumstances requiring a reversal of judgment of acquittal - Conviction order passed by High Court set aside. Appeal - Criminal appeal - Against acquittal - Scope of - Held: Powers of
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra
- 2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka
- 2007 State of Goa v. Sanjay Thakran and Anr.
- 1998 Panchhi and Ors. Etc. v. State of U.P.
- 2011 State of Rajasthan v. Shera Ram @ Vishnu Dutta
- 2007 Girija Prasad (dead) by Lrs. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2004 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Mast Ram
- 2000 State of U.P. v. Ashok Dixit and Anr.
- 2010 Gopal Singh and Ors. v. State of M.P.
- 1996 Raja Ram Yadav and Others v. State of Bihar
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Nimai Ghosh & Ors. v. The State of Bihar (now Jharkhand)
- 2024 Vinod Jaswantray Vyas (dead) through Lrs. v. The State of Gujarat
- 2021 Jayamma & Anr v. State of Karnataka
- 2014 State of Rajasthan v. Chandgi Ram & Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to
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