{"id":135878,"date":"2003-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kojja-sreenu-vs-state-of-a-p-on-18-december-2003"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:47:25","slug":"kojja-sreenu-vs-state-of-a-p-on-18-december-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kojja-sreenu-vs-state-of-a-p-on-18-december-2003","title":{"rendered":"Kojja Sreenu vs State Of A.P on 18 December, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kojja Sreenu vs State Of A.P on 18 December, 2003<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Hegde<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: N.Santosh Hegde, B.P.Singh<\/div>\n<pre>           CASE NO.:\nAppeal (crl.)  671 of 2003\n\nPETITIONER:\nKojja Sreenu\t\t\t\t\t\n\nRESPONDENT:\nState of A.P.\t\n\nDATE OF JUDGMENT: 18\/12\/2003\n\nBENCH:\nN.Santosh Hegde &amp; B.P.Singh\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\nJUDGMENT:\n<\/pre>\n<p>J U D G M E N T<\/p>\n<p>SANTOSH HEGDE,J.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe appellant and two others were charged for an offence<br \/>\npunishable under section 302 read with section 34 IPC as also<br \/>\nfor an offence punishable under section 201 read with section<br \/>\n34 before the Additional Sessions Judge, Khammam, who by<br \/>\nhis judgment dated 15.10.1998 convicted all the accused<br \/>\npersons for offences punishable under section 302 read with<br \/>\nsection 34 and section 201 and sentenced them to undergo<br \/>\nimprisonment for life; for the office under section 201 IPC, no<br \/>\nseparate sentence was awarded by him. In appeals filed against<br \/>\nthe said judgment, the High Court of Judicature Andhra<br \/>\nPradesh at Hyderabad, so far as the appeal of  Bunadri Veeraiah<br \/>\nA-2 is concerned, it allowed the same and acquitted him of the<br \/>\ncharges framed against him. So far as the appeal of Moram<br \/>\nSreenu A-3 is concerned, the High Court partly allowed the said<br \/>\nappeal and while acquitting him of the charge under section 302<br \/>\nIPC, convicted him of the offence under section 201 IPC and<br \/>\nsentenced him to the period already undergone, while the High<br \/>\nCourt dismissed the appeal of the appellant herein, confirming<br \/>\nthe conviction and sentence awarded by the trial court, hence,<br \/>\nthe said accused is before us in this appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe prosecution case, stated briefly, is that all the 3<br \/>\naccused persons and the deceased, Challa Venkanna @<br \/>\nNaddodu were involved in property offences. While the said<br \/>\ndeceased was in custody for one such offence, between the<br \/>\nyears 1993 and 1995, the appellant developed illicit intimacy<br \/>\nwith the wife of the deceased and he eloped with her. On his<br \/>\nbeing released from custody, the deceased having come to<br \/>\nknow of this relationship, he got his wife to return to him and<br \/>\nalso allegedly warned the appellant against the said<br \/>\nrelationship. It is because of this reason there was ill will<br \/>\nbetween the two of them. Prosecution states that the appellant<br \/>\non 29.3.1995, when the deceased and the accused persons had<br \/>\ngone to a toddy shop to consume toddy and were returning<br \/>\nback, the appellant had an altercation with the deceased in the<br \/>\npresence of other accused persons. This was noticed by Kodi<br \/>\nLingaiah, PW-5. It was the further case of the prosecution that<br \/>\nfrom 29th to 31st March, 1995 the deceased was not seen. The<br \/>\nprosecution alleges that on 31.3.1995, the appellant went to<br \/>\nPW-1 who was working as an attender in the Collectorate and<br \/>\nmade a confession to him that he and his friend had killed the<br \/>\ndeceased on 29.3.1995 and thrown his body in a pond near the<br \/>\nriver Munneru. Having got this information, the brother of the<br \/>\ndeceased went to the Khammam Rural Police Station and filed<br \/>\na complaint against the accused persons which was registered<br \/>\nas Crime No.60 of 1995 with that Police Station and an offence<br \/>\nunder sections 302 and 201 read with section 34 IPC was<br \/>\nregistered against the accused persons. The trial court accepted<br \/>\nthe evidence of PW-5 to whom the appellant allegedly made an<br \/>\nextra-judicial confession. It also took note of the fact that PW-2<br \/>\nhad seen the appellant quarrelling with the deceased on<br \/>\n29.3.1995 and accepting the motive as projected by the<br \/>\nprosecution found all the accused guilty, as stated above.<br \/>\n\tThe High Court in appeal, accepted the evidence of PW-<br \/>\n5 as to the extra-judicial confession allegedly made by the<br \/>\nappellant and the evidence of PW-2 in regard to the quarrel that<br \/>\ntook place on 29.3.1995. It also accepted the prosecution case<br \/>\nin regard to the motive as suggested by the prosecution but in<br \/>\nthe absence of any direct evidence or other material to establish<br \/>\nthe actual role played by A-2, the High Court found him not<br \/>\nguilty of the offence and acquitted him. While in regard to A-3<br \/>\nthe High Court came to the conclusion that there was no<br \/>\nmaterial adduced by the prosecution as to his role in the murder<br \/>\nof the deceased but placing reliance on his statement made<br \/>\nunder section 313 Cr.P.C. wherein he admitted the fact that he<br \/>\nhad assisted the appellant in disposing of the body convicted<br \/>\nhim only for that offence while acquitting him of the charge of<br \/>\nmurder.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tSo far as the appellant is concerned, the High Court<br \/>\naccepted the prosecution case in toto and confirmed the<br \/>\nconviction imposed on him by the trial court. Ms. C K<br \/>\nSucharita, learned counsel appearing for the appellant<br \/>\ncontended that both the courts below seriously erred in placing<br \/>\nreliance on the extra-judicial confession allegedly made by the<br \/>\nappellant to PW-5. She contended that the evidence of PW-5 is<br \/>\nwholly artificial and his conduct after hearing the confession,<br \/>\nshows that if really such a confession had been made to him, he<br \/>\nwould have first gone to the Police Station rather than going in<br \/>\nsearch of the brother of the deceased. She also contended that<br \/>\nthe evidence of PW-2 does not help the prosecution in proving<br \/>\nthe guilt as against this appellant. She submitted that the courts<br \/>\nbelow ought not to have relied upon the statement of A-3 made<br \/>\nunder section 313 Cr.P.C. to hold the appellant guilty. Per<br \/>\ncontra, Mr. G. Prabhakar, learned counsel representing the<br \/>\nState, contended that though there are no eye witnesses to the<br \/>\nactual killing of the deceased, it is clear from the evidence led<br \/>\nby the prosecution that the appellant was considering the<br \/>\ndeceased as a hurdle in the way of his affair with the latter&#8217;s<br \/>\nwife. He also contended that there is sufficient material through<br \/>\nthe evidence of PW-2 to prove the fact that there was a quarrel<br \/>\nbetween the appellant and the deceased on the day deceased<br \/>\ndied. He also contend that the appellant had sufficient motive to<br \/>\ncommit the murder of the deceased. He further contended that<br \/>\nPW-5 is an independent witness who has no axe to grind<br \/>\nagainst the appellant and the deceased used to respect him as an<br \/>\nelder brother. In such a situation there is nothing suspicious if<br \/>\nthe appellant had gone to him and made a confessional<br \/>\nstatement. He rebutted the argument of the learned counsel for<br \/>\nthe appellant as to PW-5 not going to the Police Station by<br \/>\nsaying that it is but natural for a witness like PW-5 after hearing<br \/>\nthe confession to first bring to the notice of the family of the<br \/>\ndeceased the factum of his death before any further steps could<br \/>\nbe taken. Learned counsel contended that from the evidence of<br \/>\nPW-2 it is clear that immediately before the murder was<br \/>\ncommitted, the appellant had an altercation with the deceased.<br \/>\nThis coupled with the statement of A-3 made before the court<br \/>\nclearly shows that it is the appellant who committed the murder.<br \/>\n\tAs noted above, it is seen that the prosecution relies on<br \/>\nthe evidence of PWs.2, 5 and the statement of A-3 to prove its<br \/>\ncharge of murder against the appellant. If we analyse this<br \/>\nevidence independently then we gather the impression that it is<br \/>\nunsafe to base a conviction of the appellant on the above<br \/>\nmaterial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tPW-5 is a resident of the same locality where the<br \/>\ndeceased was also residing. This witness is an attender in the<br \/>\nDistrict Collectorate at Khammam. He states that about 3 years<br \/>\nbefore his evidence, one morning A-1 came to him and made an<br \/>\nextra-judicial confession to him that two days before he along<br \/>\nwith two other accused persons had committed the murder of<br \/>\nthe deceased and had thrown his body in a pond and he<br \/>\nallegedly requested this witness to help him for which this<br \/>\nwitness told him to go and surrender to the Police. Having<br \/>\nheard the statement of A-1, this witness allegedly proceeded to<br \/>\nhis office marked his attendance and at about 11-11.30 a.m. left<br \/>\nthe office without informing anyone to inform PW-1 brother of<br \/>\nthe deceased about his death. If we analyse his evidence, we<br \/>\nnote that this witness seems to have taken the information of a<br \/>\nmurder rather indifferently. He is a government servant. A-1 if<br \/>\nknown to him well, PW-5 would have known that he is a person<br \/>\ninvolved in property crime and any dealing with such person<br \/>\nthat too pertaining to murder would put this witness in a<br \/>\ndifficult position. In spite of the same and even though the<br \/>\npolice station was on the way to his office, this witness does not<br \/>\nbother to inform the police, on the contrary, considers it so<br \/>\nimportant as to leave his office without permission to go to PW-<br \/>\n1&#8217;s house to inform him of his brother&#8217;s death. This witness did<br \/>\nnot inform anybody in his office also about the murder<br \/>\ncommitted in a town like Khammam. We find some amount of<br \/>\nartificiality in the evidence of this witness. A-1 did not have<br \/>\nany special reason to make a confession to this witness which is<br \/>\nclear from the evidence, PW-5 himself when he says that he did<br \/>\nnot know why A-1 made a confession to him. Most of all what<br \/>\nmakes his evidence doubtful is his not informing the police<br \/>\nabout the confession even after he told PW-1 about it. In this<br \/>\nbackground the statement allegedly made by A-1 being an extra<br \/>\njudicial confession, we think it not safe to rely on the same.<br \/>\n\tThe courts below have then relied on the evidence of<br \/>\nPW-2 who stated that on the date of incident he along with<br \/>\nsome others saw A-1 quarreling with the deceased. From the<br \/>\nevidence of this witness, it becomes doubtful whether he knew<br \/>\nthe accused persons at all because he stated in his evidence that<br \/>\nhe saw the accused only on the date of incident. He was unable<br \/>\nto give the particulars of the dress worn by them. In this<br \/>\nbackground, we think his evidence also cannot be relied on.<br \/>\n\tThat leaves only the statement of A-3, who in his<br \/>\nstatement under Section 313 Cr.P.C., stated that he helped the<br \/>\nappellant in throwing the body in the pond. This statement<br \/>\nbeing in the nature of a confession involving a co-accused, we<br \/>\ndo not think it safe to place reliance on the same in the absence<br \/>\nof any corroboration whatsoever..\n<\/p>\n<p> \tFor the said reasons, this appeal succeeds, the judgments<br \/>\nof the courts below are set aside. The appellant shall be set at<br \/>\nliberty forthwith, if not wanted in any other case.\n<\/p>\n<p>The appeal is allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Kojja Sreenu vs State Of A.P on 18 December, 2003 Author: S Hegde Bench: N.Santosh Hegde, B.P.Singh CASE NO.: Appeal (crl.) 671 of 2003 PETITIONER: Kojja Sreenu RESPONDENT: State of A.P. DATE OF JUDGMENT: 18\/12\/2003 BENCH: N.Santosh Hegde &amp; B.P.Singh JUDGMENT: J U D G M E N T SANTOSH HEGDE,J. 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