{"id":3777,"date":"2008-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sunil-so-arjun-kittur-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-3-june-2008"},"modified":"2015-05-26T06:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T01:03:43","slug":"sunil-so-arjun-kittur-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-3-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sunil-so-arjun-kittur-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-3-june-2008","title":{"rendered":"Sunil S\/O Arjun Kittur vs The State Of Karnataka on 3 June, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
Sunil S\/O Arjun Kittur vs The State Of Karnataka on 3 June, 2008<\/div>\n
Author: Jawad Rahim<\/div>\n
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accuge\ufb01 s\ufb01aui\u00e9 have been charge*\u00a7”-fer7._t\u00a7:ze ‘~::ff\u00e9n\u00e9:.2<\/p>\n
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