High Court Karnataka High Court

Basappa vs The State Of Karnataka on 27 August, 2008

Karnataka High Court
Basappa vs The State Of Karnataka on 27 August, 2008
Author: V Jagannathan
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA

   

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Dated the 27"' day of August 2008??' '    'V. 

   

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CRIMINAL APPEiiL"NQ. 1%'27$,r  
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Basappa, j . , _
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Aged about 30;yéét1″s; Ag1ficultLu1.jis}t,
Bijapur i3i$tric:t., Kawadimaiti. Village,
Muddebihal*;’.Ta].p.1;§’ %

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S / 0 ‘Bh:;3e3_;a{ppa, V
‘Aged abo1f1ft,64, –‘do-.

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, — .. Sf/0 Badakappa Hagar,
Aged abc)’ut.,__3_6. years, -do~.
S.V.Pattanshetti, Advocate. )

. . .Respa1dent

( By Smt Anuradha M.Desai, Advocate.)

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whether it was permissible for the trial court to have

tried the two cases separately when the i11cide_nt_Vthat –

has given rise to the two cases is one and _

12. A three judges Bench of

case of State of MP. Vs. fin’ Qioioat”

SAR (C11) 409, s ‘
H.K.Sen1a, dealing ceunter case
and the necessity 1’ the very same

court, has ‘tiI1d.ei’:

is undisputed,
officer submitted
basis of the complaint

A . .. 1od§ed_:’by.the”‘ac’c:used Mishrilal in respect
the shame-~-iticident. It would have been
V and proper to decide both the
it by the same court in View
‘of guidelines devised by this court in

” ,V’I~iut11j1a1’s case (supra). The cross–cases
should be tried together by the same
court irrespective of the nature of the
offence involved. The rational behind this

is to avoid the conflicting judgments over

the same incident because if cross cases

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are allowed to be tried by two courts

separately, there is likelihood of T
conflicting judgments. In the
case, the investigating officer
the challan against both thegVpa1″ties’.’~Eoth”i~::: to _

the complaints cannot he it
Either of them must _be at it

situation, legal

investigating officer endegssour
to find out outthe
truth from the Hiifortunately,
the has med to
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In the “the” Apex Court also

referred to its “‘eau1_r1j.c14’V’dc’%§’c:;i:_sioi§’1;e’ in the case of Nathilal

gstaefipf tJ..I=§ (i”99~oiV1(supp.) sec 145, and quoted

the._0hS’€ITvations«.Iiiade therein, which are as under:

_ the fair procedure to adopt
in a like the present where there
T «cross cases, is to direct that the same
uiesrned judge must try both the cross
one after the other. After the
recording of evidence in one case is

completed, he must hear the arguments

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17. For the aferczsaid E’€8.SOI1S, ‘thfi appeal is aiiawed

and the jucignént sf the trial cauri: c0nvict§z1;g~..4_fh,_e
yregent appefiants and santeficing them is: _
The appefiants am acquitted of Viglgez offe1’1ict-“:’s:ib3§ §%hic11.I ” ”

thay wars convicted by ‘me c:;)ut;¥:

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