Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Accused was caught on the same day of incident along with weapon of offence - Forensic report and other evidence proved that knife recovered from accused was used in the commission of crime and blood found on the same is matched with blood of deceased - Eye witnesses are reliable - Entire evidence put together by prosecution..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304(Part I) -- Nature of offence - Parties assembled at the place of occurrence for the purpose of celebrating the birthday of PW24 - Quarrel happened suddenly between deceased and A-2 while consuming liquor - Though it is stated that A-1 had made an attempt to shoot the deceased - Very said fact alone cannot be a ground to bring it..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 301, 302, 307 -- Murder - Evidence tendered by eye witnesses suffered from serious lacunae - Their evidence cannot be said to be credible - There are glaring inconsistencies in the prosecution version which have been magnified by absence of testimony of material witnesses and ballistic report coupled with the non-recovery of weapon of crime..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder of father-in-law by son-in-law - Weapons were not sent for chemical analysis - When motive of crime, presence of accused at the time of occurrence, his fleeing away from the house of deceased and recovery of weapon or knife have been established, mere fact that weapons were not sent for chemical analysis does not affect its..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149 -- Murder - Medical evidence - Only one kind of weapon i.e chopper was used in committing the crime - Evidence of doctor proved the injuries but suggested possibility of use of different weapons in causing those injuries - Though evidence of doctor may not be matching with that of prosecution, but ocular evidence of injured eye..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Arms Act, 1959, Section 25, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 27 -- Double murder case - Recovery of weapon of offence - Recovery was allegedly made from open space in a garden - Place was thus, easily accessible to many - Neither PW15 nor PW20 have stated that weapon and cartridges were buried underground and were recovered only after..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, 120B, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Recovery of tangia/axe - Recovery effected at the instance of accused is per se not admissible, as same was made in police station - PW8 not supported the recovery of weapon of offence at the instance of accused - Evidence of I.O. and PW5 regarding recovery is inconsistent - Recovery..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 84 -- Murder of grandfather - Plea of insanity - Accused after attacking deceased with a sharp edged weapon trying to take out windpipe from neck of deceased - This action of accused was weird and abnormal - This clearly shows that accused was suffering from insanity at the time of incident - Benefit of S.84 IPC rightly extended to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Recovery of weapon of offence - Contradiction in the evidence of PW1 and PW18 regarding recovery of weapon of offence - This makes the prosecution case vulnerable as far as discovery of stick at the instance of accused - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201 -- Murder of wife by husband - Husband not disputed his presence at home at the relevant time - He failed to offer any explanation or gave false answer as to how wife received injuries - Defence of robbery taken by husband not proved as nothing on record to indicate that he had suffered any injuries - On the other hand there were..........
