Supreme Court of India

The State of Andhra Pradesh Home Department v. Ponthati Siva Rami Reddy

Neutral citation
Bench Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar JJ.
Decided 10 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

Before parting, we state that the following observations of the High Court in the impugned judgment do not meet our approval.

Judgment, page 15

In brief

There was long-standing enmity between the victim's family and the accused (A1-A4), the victim's relative having allegedly been murdered by A1's father in 1997. On the night of 08/09.03.2006, the victim went with PW1 to water their crops and was assaulted with sickles and iron pipes, sustaining twenty-two injuries; he was taken to a Government Hospital, a statement attributed to him was recorded there in the early morning of 09.03.2006, and he died at 7.30 a.m.…

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