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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
S.K.MISHRA, B.P.ROUTRAY
Kondagiri Dangeya – Appellant
Versus
State of Orissa – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. background of appeal and murder charge. (Para 1 , 2 , 3) |
| 2. trial court findings and parties' arguments. (Para 4 , 5 , 6) |
| 3. evaluation of eyewitness reliability and evidence. (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11) |
| 4. analysis of culpable homicide and intent. (Para 12 , 13 , 15 , 19 , 21) |
| 5. conclusion of the appeal and dissenting opinion. (Para 16 , 24) |
| 6. application of law regarding murder exceptions. (Para 22 , 23) |
JUDGMENT :
B.P. ROUTRAY, J.
This appeal has been preferred against the conviction and sentence to imprisonment for life on the appellant by the learned Sessions Judge, Koraput in C.T.Case No.196 of 2003.
2. The charge was for murder simplicitor. The prosecution case, in short, is that, on that fateful evening i.e. on 19.12.2002 at about 5 P.M., the appellant and the deceased were returning to the house of the latter after taking liquor from the village and on the way near the hut of P.W.3, they abused each other. Hearing the shout, P.W.3 came out from his hut and saw that the appellant assaulted the deceased on his head and face by a lathi he was holding. The appellant was also seen assaulting the deceased by pressing that lathi on different parts of the body of the d
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