Sooguru Subrahmanyam V/s State of Andhra Pradesh

Information Type: Judicial Information
Court: Supreme Court
Date of Judgment(s): 2013-04-04
Case No: 164 OF 2008
Case Type: Appeal (Criminal)
Judge Name: K.S. Radhakrishnan & Dipak Misra
Subject: Criminal Law - Life Imprisonment
Statutes / Acts: Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section: s.302
Bench Strength: Double Bench
Advocate: Ashok Kumar Sharma, Avinash Kumar Jain (P) & Shishir Pinaki, D. Mahesh Babu and Mayur Shah (R)
State of Appellant(s): Andhra Pradesh
History of Case No: Judgment and Order dated 28.08.2006 of the High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in Criminal Appeal No. 1478 of 2004
Equal Citation Details :

 2013 (82) ALLCC 24, 2013ALLMR(Cri)2642, 2013CriLJ2253, 2013(2)Crimes201(SC), JT2013(8)SC441, 2013(2)N.C.C.56, 2014(1)RCR(Criminal)518, 2013(5)SCALE322, (2013)4SCC244, AIR2013SC1643, 2013(2)ALD(Cri)234

Case Note / Description :

It is to be borne in mind that suspicion pertaining to fidelity has immense potentiality to commit irreversible wrongs as it corrupts the mind and corrodes the sense of rational thinking and further allows liberty to the mind to pave the path of evil. In fact, it brings in baseness. It quite often impures mind, takes it to the devil’s den and leads one to do unjust acts than just deeds. In any case, it does not give licence to commit murder. Thus, the submission pertaining to the absence of motive has no substance.  In view of the aforesaid analysis, we conclude and hold that all the links in the chain of evidence are established beyond reasonable doubt and the established circumstances are consistent with the singular hypothesis that the accused is guilty of the crime and it is totally inconsistent with his innocence. We have said so on the basis of the pronouncements 19Page 20 in Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra , Padala Veera Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh and ors., Balwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, Harischandra Ladaku Thange v. State of Maharashtra  and Jagroop Singh v. State of Punjab. Consequently, the appeal, being sans substratum, stands dismissed. 

Indian Penal Code, 1860

 

 
 
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