Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149 -- Murder - Previous enmity - Assault with sharp cutting weapon such as sword or chopper - 20 Ante mortem injuries inflicted - Accused previously known to eye witnesses - Corroboration of testimony of eye witnesses in material particulars - Sword recovered at instance of accused - Medical evidence leading to conclusion that death..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Case resting on circumstantial evidence - Deceased a minor girl was last seen in the company of accused - Accused gave different false statements to different persons regarding whereabouts of the deceased and thereafter tried to fled away - Recovery of belt of accused with stains of human blood - Blood stains matching with..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Sentence - Assault brutal on helpless child - Motive for crime quite obscure and killing not for any gain - Not rarest of rare case - Death sentence converted to sentence for life imprisonment...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 -- Part-I - Nature of offence - Accused stabbed deceased with scissor in mutual scuffle - There was sudden quarrel, on spur of moment, without any premeditation - No evidence of previous enmity or of motive to kill deceased - Held, mere fact that deceased sustained four injuries, would not warrant an inference that accused acted in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 118 -- Murder and attempt to murder - Reliability of injured child witness - Accused had an altercation with the deceased and he chopped off neck of the deceased with a knife and then assaulted his son with same knife - Omission of names of most of the witnesses examined by the prosecution in FIR not of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 323 -- Murder and hurt - Accused assaulted father of deceased and thereafter gave two fist blows to the deceased, one on chest and other on the belly thereby causing death - Testimony of eye witnesses regarding alleged assault not corroborated by medical evidence - Doctor who conducted postmortem examination did not find any internal..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - No eye witness to the occurrence - Prosecution allegations that accused allegedly killed his wife - Deceased was missing from the house of accused and three days thereafter, dead body was found floating in a river and was identified - Thus last seen theory not available to prosecution - Extra judicial confession allegedly..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Prosecution allegations that accused allegedly committed murder of wife in presence of minor children - Minor children examined as child witnesses - They supported the charge in their first examination, but were got recalled and in cross examination they gave a complete go by to their earlier statement - Held, conviction cannot be..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 366 -- Two kids roasted to death - Trial court awarded death sentence - High Court converted death sentence to life imprisonment and further ordering that accused should not be released before serving 20 years of imprisonment - Appeal in Supreme Court came up for hearing when accused already..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 -- Part II - Murder of culpable homicide - Medical evidence showing that accused caused 6 grave injuries on the body of deceased with sharp edged weapons - No injury was found on the body of the accused thereby suggesting that accused had not acted in right of private defence - There was sudden provocation by the deceased who was..........
