VELTHEPU SRINIVAS AND OTHERSversusSTATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH (NOW STATE OF TELANGANA) AND ANR.
Case No.: CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2852/2023
Decision Date: 06-01-2024
Disposal: Disposed off
Neutral Citation: 2024INSC87

BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI*, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA Issue for Consideration The courts below, if justified in convicting the four accused u/ss. 302/34 IPC and imposing sentence for life for committing murder of the victim. Headnotes Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302/34, s. 304 Part II – Murder – Culpable homicide not amounting to murder, when – Political animosity between two groups led to the murder of the deceased – Prosecution witnesses corroborating incident of accused A 1 stopping an auto, dragging the deceased to the house of A-4, and the other accused-A2, A4 

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