Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Number of injuries is not determining factor for ascertaining intention...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 147 -- Murder - Testimony of wife of deceased - Contradiction in the statement of PW1 is very trivial in nature, which cannot negate or demolish prosecution story - Even if there are some omissions, contradictions and discrepancies entire evidence cannot be disregarded - Undue importance should not be attached to omissions,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 147 -- Murder - Motive - PW1 stated that accused wanted to sell ancestral land which was being opposed by deceased - PW2/real brother of accused and deceased in his evidence stated that accused wanted to sell his land which was being opposed by deceased as accused used to drink liquor after selling his land, due to that reason accused..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 147 -- Murder - Related witnesses - Incident took place in the house of deceased and accused which was only witnessed by PW1/informant/wife of deceased who has been examined - Therefore, question of production of witness from vicinity does not arise, whose deposition finds full support from postmortem report - If murder is committed in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, 201, 404 -- Murder - Appellant No.2 only helped co-accused in suppressing evidence by digging a hole and hiding dead body of deceased - No recovery of any of articles of deceased effected from possession of appellant No.2 - It was co-accused who caused assault, which resulted in death of deceased - Conviction of appellant No.2,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 8 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Motive - Appellant needed money to get his jeep back and for this purpose he looted tractor by killing driver to arrange money - However, there is no further evidence on record to prove that after looting tractor and committing alleged murder of deceased he has..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Last seen theory - Prosecution from testimonies of PW18 and PW20 has been able to prove that deceased was last seen alive in the company of appellant and co-accused on the evening of day before death of deceased - Accused persons took deceased along with them on the pretext of fetching cable..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 148, 149, 34 -- Murder - PW7/doctor who had conducted postmortem of dead body of deceased specifically stated that three incise wounds were found on the dead body of deceased - Though, PW7 has stated that injury sustained by deceased could possibly be caused by stone which was shown to him by Constable as well as sticks shown to him -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 148, 149, 34 -- Murder - Major contradictions in deposition given by informant - Material contradictions in deposition of informant regarding the manner in which incident took place and with regard to which information about the incident was given by her grand daughter - Independent witnesses did not support the case of prosecution -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Evidence adduced by prosecution suffered from material discrepancies and whole story put up lacked credence - Although alleged weapon of offence, licensed firearm belonging to co-accused was recovered, no endeavour appears to have been made to subject the same to expert ballistic examination in order to establish whether..........
