Supreme Court of India

Seena@ Srinivasa v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2014] 6 S.C.R. 1026
Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.
Decided 2 July 2014

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the accused no. 2 was rightly convicted by the Trial Court for the offence under Section 302 IPC. E.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss.302134. 326 - Murder - Allegation that accused 1 to 3 went with choppers where victim-deceased was grazing cattle and attacked him - PW1 rushed towards deceased but he was chased by the accused - PW1 ran upto land of PW2 - Accused started pelting stones at PW-1 - On intervention of PW2, accused left - Victim-deceased succumbed to injuries - Accused no. 1 died during trial - Conviction by trial court u/ss. 302134 - High Court modified convicrion of accused no.2 to s.326 and acquitted accused no. 3 - On appeal, held: The evidence of PW 1 regarding participation of accused

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