Supreme Court of India

Kondapaka Sridhar @shekar @madhu @gopi @chinna v. The State of Telangana

Neutral citation
Bench J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran JJ.
Decided 3 September 2026

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

We, hence, find absolutely no reason to sustain the order of conviction entered against A1 by the High Court, and therefore, we set aside the same. ... The appeal stands allowed.

Judgment, 16, 18

In brief

The victim left home for Hyderabad and became unreachable; two days later his father (PW1) received a ransom call demanding a deposit of Rs.2,00,000 into a bank account, and PW1 lodged a complaint and deposited Rs.1,50,000 into an account in the name of one Geetanjali. Analysis of call records allegedly led the I.O. to A6, whose confession and pointing out resulted in recovery of the victim's body concealed in a refrigerator in Flat No.402 of an apartment complex, death being due to asphyxia by smothering with strangulation.…

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the Supreme Court's own signed PDF — the original file as the Registry published it, not a copy somebody has watermarked or re-branded
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.