Supreme Court of India

Munishamappa & Ors. v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2019] 2 S.C.R. 386
Bench Dr. Dhananja Ya Y Chandrachud and Vineet Saran JJ.
Decided 24 January 2019

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the sentence which has been imposed by the High Court should be enhanced to ten years rigorous imprisonment.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Criminal Law – Appeal against acquittal – Long-standing dispute between families of two br others, accused no.5 (since deceased) and CW -29 in r egard to ancestral pr operty – Litigation ensued – Officials fr om the Sur vey Depar tment came to conduct survey of the property – Altercation between the two families– Sur vey officials left the scene – Later , the accused persons r eturned to the scene, armed with lethal weapons and assaulted the family of complainants – ‘KR’ and ‘KE’, sons of CW -29 died – T rial cour t acquitted eleven accused persons tried for offences inter alia u/ss.143, 148,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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