{"id":73354,"date":"1999-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/krishnegowda-and-others-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-25-november-1999"},"modified":"2018-01-19T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:49:25","slug":"krishnegowda-and-others-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-25-november-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/krishnegowda-and-others-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-25-november-1999","title":{"rendered":"Krishnegowda And Others vs State Of Karnataka on 25 November, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Krishnegowda And Others vs State Of Karnataka on 25 November, 1999<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Shah<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M.B.Shah, G.B.Pattanaik<\/div>\n<pre>           PETITIONER:\nKRISHNEGOWDA AND OTHERS\n\n\tVs.\n\nRESPONDENT:\nSTATE OF KARNATAKA\n\nDATE OF JUDGMENT:\t25\/11\/1999\n\nBENCH:\nM.B.Shah, G.B.Pattanaik\n\n\n\n\nJUDGMENT:\n<\/pre>\n<p>      Shah, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>      These  appeals are filed by convicted accused  wherein<br \/>\nit  is\talleged\t that accused belong to Congress  party\t and<br \/>\ndeceased  No.1- Kengegowda belonged to Janata Party and\t was<br \/>\nthe Pradhan of Karimuddenahalli.  Deceased No.2-Govindegowda<br \/>\nwas  the younger brother of Kengegowda and he was  President<br \/>\nof  the\t Milk Producers Co-operative Society and  both\twere<br \/>\nleaders of Janata Party.  During the elections to the Mandal<br \/>\nPanchayat  in  the year 1988, Kengegowda was elected to\t the<br \/>\nPanchayat.    Because  of  the\t said  elections,   disputes<br \/>\nincluding  criminal cases were pending in the Court.  It  is<br \/>\nthe  prosecution story that on 02.5.1989 at about 5.30\tp.m.<br \/>\ndeceased  Kengegowda  alongwith witnesses was  sitting\tnear<br \/>\nSrikantachars  shop and was chitchatting.  At a distance of<br \/>\n8-10   ft.    other   witnesses\t  were\talso   sitting\t and<br \/>\nchitchatting.\tThat is, in all deceased Kengegowda, PW1  to<br \/>\nPW6,  CW5 and CW8 were present at the scene of offence.\t  At<br \/>\nthat  time,  A1 to A3 followed by another 20 to\t 25  accused<br \/>\ncame  running to the direction from the house of A12 holding<br \/>\nchoppers,  clubs and stones etc.  They all came in a  group.<br \/>\nAs  the\t aforesaid witnesses were about to get up, A1 to  A3<br \/>\nassaulted  deceased-  Kengegowda  by   chopper,\t A4  and  A5<br \/>\nassaulted  him with clubs and other accused assaulted PW1 to<br \/>\nPW6.   They  are  all named and identified  by\tthe  injured<br \/>\nwitnesses.  It is also the say of the prosecution that after<br \/>\nassaulting   the  deceased-Kengegowda\tand  the  witnesses,<br \/>\naccused\t left and ran away from the place of offence towards<br \/>\nthe  house  of A12.  Thereafter, they got  information\tfrom<br \/>\nPW9,  son of the deceased Govindegowda, that his father\t was<br \/>\nassaulted  by the accused and that accused have chopped\t his<br \/>\nlegs and hands and he was lying near the High School ground.<br \/>\nThis  information  was sent at Police Station, which  is  18<br \/>\nkms.  away from the village.  It is the say of PW 29, Police<br \/>\nSub-Inspector  that  a\ttelephonic message was\treceived  at<br \/>\nabout  6.30  p.m.   that   some\t miscreants  have  assaulted<br \/>\nKengegowda  and\t Govindegowda.\t On   receipt  of  the\tsaid<br \/>\nmessage, PW29 alongwith police constable reached the village<br \/>\nat  7.00  p.m.\t and  found  deceased Nos.1  &amp;\t2  lying  on<br \/>\ndifferent  spots and they were alive at that time.  He\talso<br \/>\nfound  PWs 1 to 6 and 9, who were injured.  After  recording<br \/>\nthe  statement\tof  PW1,  he sent deceased and\tPW3  to\t the<br \/>\nhospital  for  treatment.   Thereafter,\t PW32  Inspector  of<br \/>\nPolice came to the spot and recorded the statement of PWs 1,<br \/>\n2,  4, 5, 6 and 9 and after recording their statements\tthey<br \/>\nwere  sent  to hospital for treatment.\tAfter recording\t the<br \/>\nFIR,  copy was sent to the Jurisdictional Magistrate,  which<br \/>\nreached\t him  at  1.00\ta.m.   on  3.5.1999.   Investigating<br \/>\nOfficer\t received the message on 3.5.1999 that the  deceased<br \/>\nhave died.  After completing the investigation, charge sheet<br \/>\nwas  submitted and after committal SC No.87\/89 was tried  by<br \/>\nthe Principal Sessions Judge, Mysore.  The Learned Principal<br \/>\nSessions  Judge\t by  his  judgment   and  order\t dated\t16th<br \/>\nDecember, 1993 convicted the appellants\t accused No.1 to 22<br \/>\nfor  the  offences punishable under Sections 148, 324,\t326,<br \/>\n341  and  302  read with Section 149 of IPC  for  murder  of<br \/>\nKengegowda.   He  acquitted  accused Nos.  23  to  29.\t For<br \/>\nsecond\tincident  of murder, the learned Principal  Sessions<br \/>\nJudge  arrived at the conclusion that there is a very strong<br \/>\nsuspicion   regarding  participation  of   the\taccused\t  in<br \/>\ncommission   of\t  murder  of\tGovindegowda.\t But   after<br \/>\nappreciating   the  evidence,  the   Court  held  that\t the<br \/>\nprosecution  has  failed to prove the second incident  which<br \/>\noccurred near High School on Gaddige road.\n<\/p>\n<p>      Against  the  said judgment and order,  the  convicted<br \/>\naccused\t preferred Criminal Appeal No.185\/1994 and the State<br \/>\npreferred  Criminal Appeal No.494\/1994 against the acquittal<br \/>\nof accused Nos.23 to 29.  The High Court by its judgment and<br \/>\norder  dated  24th  July, 1996 dismissed both  the  appeals.<br \/>\nThat  judgment\tand order is challenged in these appeals  by<br \/>\nthe convicted accused.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The  learned Principal Sessions Judge has\t appreciated<br \/>\nthe  entire  evidence in great detail.\tThe High  Court\t has<br \/>\nalso  considered  the evidence led by the prosecution.\t The<br \/>\ncourts\trelied upon the evidence of injured witnesses PW1 to<br \/>\nPW6  and the evidence of PW10 to PW12 who are eye- witnesses<br \/>\nto  convict  the  accused.   Both the  courts  analysed\t the<br \/>\nevidence  and  arrived\tat the conclusion that\tall  injured<br \/>\nwitnesses  have specifically assigned roles to accused Nos.1<br \/>\nto  5 in assaulting deceased Kengegowda.  Injured  witnesses<br \/>\nalso  specifically  deposed  before  the  court\t as  to\t who<br \/>\nassaulted  them and other injured witnesses.  The court also<br \/>\nconsidered  the fact that evidence on record discloses\tthat<br \/>\naccused\t came  in  a  group with  deadly  weapons,  such  as<br \/>\nchoppers, clubs etc., with a common object of assaulting the<br \/>\ndeceased,  Kengegowda.\tIn view of these concurrent findings<br \/>\nof  courts  below  that\t there\t was  an  unlawful  assembly<br \/>\nconsisting  of\tconvicted  accused with a common  object  to<br \/>\nmurder\tKengegowda,  who  was of rival faction,\t it  is\t not<br \/>\nnecessary  for\tus  to\tre-evaluate   the  evidence  in\t its<br \/>\nentirety.  The evidence of the injured prosecution witnesses<br \/>\nis  corroborated by the medical evidence.  Further, within a<br \/>\nshort  span of one and a half-hour, FIR disclosing the names<br \/>\nof the accused was lodged.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The  learned  counsel  appearing\ton  behalf  of\t the<br \/>\nappellants after referring to the evidence on record was not<br \/>\nin a position to challenge the findings that:-\n<\/p>\n<p>      (1)  There  were rival groups and elections  disputes<br \/>\nincluding criminal cases were pending;\tand<\/p>\n<p>      (2)  The\taccused\t came  together\t and  assaulted\t the<br \/>\ndeceased Kengegowda and injured witnesses.\n<\/p>\n<p>      However,\the  has produced, for our perusal,  a  chart<br \/>\nshowing\t overt\tacts attributed to the accused by  witnesses<br \/>\nand  submitted\tthat those accused, who were not armed\twith<br \/>\nany weapon or who were alleged of having stones may be given<br \/>\nthe benefit of doubt.  He has submitted that in a case where<br \/>\nlarge number of assailants and victims are involved it would<br \/>\nbe  prudent  to follow the rule of appreciation of  evidence<br \/>\nstated by this Court in <a href=\"\/doc\/1048134\/\">Masalti v.  State of U.P.,<\/a> {(1964) 8<br \/>\nSCR 133} (para 16) which is as under:-\n<\/p>\n<p>      Mr.   Sawhney also urged that the test applied by the<br \/>\nHigh  Court in convicting the appellants is mechanical.\t  He<br \/>\nargues\tthat  under  the Indian\t Evidence  Act,\t trustworthy<br \/>\nevidence  given\t by  a\tsingle witness would  be  enough  to<br \/>\nconvict\t an accused person, whereas evidence given by half a<br \/>\ndozen witnesses which is not trustworthy would not be enough<br \/>\nto  sustain  the conviction.  That, no doubt is\t true;\t but<br \/>\nwhere  a criminal court has to deal with evidence pertaining<br \/>\nto  the commission of an offence involving a large number of<br \/>\noffenders  and\ta  large number of victims, it is  usual  to<br \/>\nadopt  the test that the conviction could be sustained\tonly<br \/>\nif  it\tis supported by two or three or more  witnesses\t who<br \/>\ngive  a consistent account of the incident.  In a sense, the<br \/>\ntest may be described as mechanical;  but it is difficult to<br \/>\nsee how it can be treated as irrational or unreasonable<\/p>\n<p>      He  further  submitted  that  the\t aforesaid  rule  of<br \/>\nappreciation  of evidence is followed by this Court in Binay<br \/>\nKumar  Singh etc.  v.  State of Bihar {(1997) 1 SCC 283} and<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/doc\/1848332\/\">Baddi  Venkata\tNarasayya  &amp; Ors.  v.  The State  of  Andhra<br \/>\nPradesh<\/a> {JT 1997 (9) SC 293}.\n<\/p>\n<p>      In  our  view, this aspect is also considered  by\t the<br \/>\nlearned Sessions Judge in paragraph 51 wherein the Court has<br \/>\nheld  that the presence and assault by A1 to A5 is spoken to<br \/>\nby  injured eye-witnesses, presence of accused A6 to A8, A10<br \/>\nand  A11 is spoken to by PW5, presence of A6 is also  spoken<br \/>\nto  by PW6, presence of A9, A13 and A17 is spoken to by PW2,<br \/>\npresence  of A15, A16 and A18 is spoken to by PW4,  presence<br \/>\nof  A1, A20 and A22 is spoken to by PW3 and presence of\t A12<br \/>\nwho  abetted  the offence is spoken to by PW14.\t PW1 to\t PW6<br \/>\nhave  stated  the presence of A14, A19 and  other  acquitted<br \/>\naccused,  which\t establishes  that  the\t evidence  of  these<br \/>\nwitnesses  discloses  the  presence  of A1  to\tA22  in\t the<br \/>\nincident.   The\t learned Sessions Judge has also  considered<br \/>\nthe  evidence of each witness assigning specific overt\tacts<br \/>\nto  the\t accused.   Considering the chart  produced  by\t the<br \/>\nlearned\t counsel for the appellants for our perusal and\t the<br \/>\nfindings  given by the learned Sessions Judge, it cannot  be<br \/>\nsaid   that  the  court\t has   not  followed  the  rule\t  of<br \/>\nappreciation  of  evidence in a case where large  number  of<br \/>\nassailants  and\t victims are involved, as laid down by\tthis<br \/>\nCourt  in  Masaltis case (Supra).  The chart given  by\tthe<br \/>\nlearned\t counsel clearly indicates that two or more  persons<br \/>\nhave  specifically  spoken  the\t presence  of  the  accused.<br \/>\nWitnesses  have given consistent account of the incident and<br \/>\nthe  role  played  by  the   individual\t accused.   In\tthis<br \/>\nparticular case, the injured eyewitnesses have consistently,<br \/>\nsince  beginning,  assigned  specific role to  a  particular<br \/>\naccused\t and this aspect has been properly considered by the<br \/>\nlearned\t Sessions  Judge.   In this view of matter,  in\t our<br \/>\nview,  there  is no question of giving benefit of  doubt  to<br \/>\naccused\t No.14-Tammegowda  and accused No.22- Somegowda,  as<br \/>\ncontended by the learned counsel for the appellants.  As per<br \/>\nthe   chart,  the  presence  and   overt  acts\tof   accused<br \/>\nNo.14-Tammegowda  is  deposed  by PW1 and PW6  and  that  of<br \/>\naccused\t No.22-Somegowda  is established by PW1 and PW3\t and<br \/>\nthat at the relevant time he was having club.\n<\/p>\n<p>      In  view of the aforesaid finding given by the learned<br \/>\nPrincipal Sessions Judge and confirmed by the High Court, we<br \/>\ndo not think that there is any substance in these appeals.\n<\/p>\n<p>      These appeals are dismissed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Krishnegowda And Others vs State Of Karnataka on 25 November, 1999 Author: Shah Bench: M.B.Shah, G.B.Pattanaik PETITIONER: KRISHNEGOWDA AND OTHERS Vs. RESPONDENT: STATE OF KARNATAKA DATE OF JUDGMENT: 25\/11\/1999 BENCH: M.B.Shah, G.B.Pattanaik JUDGMENT: Shah, J. 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