Supreme Court of India

State of Karnataka v. A. B. Mahesha Etc.

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Reported as [2018] 10 S.C.R. 922
Bench R. Banumathi and Vineet Saran JJ.
Decided 14 August 2018

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Appeal: State’s appeal against acquittal – Trial court convicted respondents/accused for offence of murder on the ba sis of circumstantial evidence – High Court set aside conv iction and acquitted all the accused – On State’s appeal, held: The evidence of prosecution witnesses were totally contradictory to e ach other – There was material contradiction as to the recovery of material objects and also identification of those material objects b y the father of the victim-deceased (PW-3) – There was inconsist ent version between the I.O. and PW-3 which raised serious doubt a bout the alleged

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