S.P. PRASANNA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 24.06.2011 passed by the High Court of Karnataka in Criminal Appeal No. 1551 of 2005 by which the acquittal of the appellant made by the learned trial Court under Section 302 IPC has been reversed.

(2.) The prosecution case against the accused is built on circumstantial evidence, there being no eyewitness to the occurrence.

(3.) Having considered the evidence of PW-2 and PW-3, (parents of the deceased); the evidence of PW-7 and 8, the Manager and the Room Boy of the Padmashree Lodge from where the dead body was recovered and the evidence of PW-23, the Investigating Officer, we are satisfied that the following circumstances have been proved by the prosecution as against the accused:-