Suresh Thipmppa Shetty vs State Of Maharashtra

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2023 Supreme(SC) 864

VIKRAM NATH, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH
Suresh Thipmppa Shetty – Appellant
Versus
State Of Maharashtra – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Vinay Navre, Sr. Adv. Mr. P. R. Rajhans, Adv. Mr. Amarnath Gupta, Adv. Mr. Jayant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Janmejay Verma, Adv. Ms. Hardikaa, Adv. Mr. Vishal Arun, AOR Dr. Sushil Balwada, AOR Mr. Kaushal Yadav, Adv. Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Srilok Nath Rath, Adv. Ms. Reena Rao, Adv. Mr. Kashyap Kumar Dwivedi, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH, J.

Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. These appeals are directed against the common Final Judgment and Order dated 05.11.2009 (hereinafter referred to as the “Impugned Judgment”) passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay (hereinafter referred to as the “High Court”) in Criminal Appeals No. 50 of 2003 (Accused No. 4/A4 – Suresh Thipmppa Shetty) and 522 of 2003 (Accused No. 2/A2 – Sadashiv Seena Salian) respectively, whereby the High Court dismissed the appeals filed by the appellants herein and upheld the conviction order(s) passed by the Sessions Court. The State’s appeal against the acquittal of 4 co-accused i.e., A1, A5, A6 and A7 (Criminal Appeal No. 496 of 2003) as also Criminal Appeal No. 86 of 2003 by the Accused No. 3/A3 (Ganesh alias Annu Shivaram Shetty, who later passed away), were dismissed by the Impugned Judgment.

THE FACTUAL PRISM:

3. Briefly put, relevant details of the story run thus:

3.1 The prosecution alleges that the original accused A1, A2 and A7 were in the Colaba Police Station lockup from 23.0

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2023 Supreme(SC) 864

VIKRAM NATH, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAHSuresh Thipmppa Shetty – AppellantVersusState Of Maharashtra – Respondent

VIKRAM NATH, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH
Suresh Thipmppa Shetty – Appellant
Versus
State Of Maharashtra – Respondent