Supreme Court of India

Prakash v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2014] 5 S.C.R. 242
Bench Ranjana Prakash Desai and Madan B. Lokur JJ.
Decided 15 April 2014

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Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Murder- Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court on the basis of circumstantial evidence - Appeal against conviction - Prosecution case that appellant went to the house of victim-deceased and robbed her ornaments and murdered her - High Court relied on the circumstances that the appellant was found in deceased 0 house on the fateful day; that fingerprint expert found his fingerprint on a plastic cover; that appellant's clothes were blood-stained when he was arrested after 6 days and the blood-stains tallied with the blood group of the deceased; that the

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